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toadlife:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---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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Ok. That's what I thought. It actually should work as long as the application that the link is being called from supports konquerors dfault app settings.

Try setting firefox to your default brower and then clicking a link from an email in thunderbird or setting thunderbird as your default mail client and clicking a "mailto" link in firefox. Does it work then?

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: toadlife ---
Try setting firefox to your default brower and then clicking a link from an email in thunderbird or setting thunderbird as your default mail client and clicking a "mailto" link in firefox. Does it work then?
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Better off asking someone else, I don't use/have thunderbird (I use a web app in the form of Gmail for my email).

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---GNOME can do that, and I think KDE can too. "Desktop > Preferences > Preferred Applications" in GNOME.
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But If I set up KDE to use FireFox as the default html viewer the setting only affects KDE, Gnome, Xfce are all unaffected, hence there's no standard way to set a default application for a particular purpose, the same applies to drag and drop, DDE and OLE across on any UNIX platform, Windows and Mac OS are better in this respect.

toadlife:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---But If I set up KDE to use FireFox as the default html viewer the setting only affects KDE, Gnome, Xfce are all unaffected, hence there's no standard way to set a default application for a particular purpose, the same applies to drag and drop, DDE and OLE across on any UNIX platform, Windows and Mac OS are better in this respect.
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Well there is a standard - the problem is, they are "KDE standards" and "Gnome standards", not "X" or "linux/unix" standards. and many apps just don't bother to impliment all of the standards.

Aloone_Jonez:
That's what exactly what I meant, the same applies to package management.

I think the problem is that things like package management, DDE and desktops weren't part of the origional POSIX standard, they came along afterwards.

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