Operating Systems > Linux and UNIX
PCBSD - I'm fairly impressed
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---The one thing that pisses me off with UNIX systems is how programs don't interoperate or communicate with each other very well and there's no standard way to have a default browser or mail client unlike Mac OS or Windows.
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GNOME can do that, and I think KDE can too. "Desktop > Preferences > Preferred Applications" in GNOME.
toadlife:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---GNOME can do that, and I think KDE can too. "Desktop > Preferences > Preferred Applications" in GNOME.
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It doesn't work for applications which are not written specifically to use that feature. Setting your default email and web clients to thunderbird and mozilla in KDE does nothing. I don't know about Gnome, but I'm willing to bet the same is true.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---Setting your default email and web clients to thunderbird and mozilla in KDE does nothing.
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Definetly something wrong there.
I can click on a link in GAIM and it opens in firefox. Changing the default browser to "blahblah" in GNOME's preferred applications causes an error when I click a link in GAIM. Clicking URLs in kspread launches Konqueror, as expected.
toadlife:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Definetly something wrong there.
I can click on a link in GAIM and it opens in firefox. Changing the default browser to "blahblah" in GNOME's preferred applications causes an error when I click a link in GAIM. Clicking URLs in kspread launches Konqueror, as expected.
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I'm unclear on what you meant here. Are you saying things work like they should for you, or they don't work like they should?
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---I'm unclear on what you meant here. Are you saying things work like they should for you, or they don't work like they should?
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Things work like they were intended to. Applications will chose to ask GNOME or KDE or whatever or nothing for a browser or mail client or terminal to run.
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