PCBSD - I'm fairly impressed

[solemnwarning]

oops, read a post higher up and thought this was a thread on getting old hardware up (never post at 5am)

btw, THE NEW RAM IS DEAD!!! :mad:

[Aloone_Jonez]

I hope you haven't tried to fit your RAM at 5am. :eek:

[solemnwarning]

no, i got it today and fitted it just before that post.

/me kills whoever on ebay sold the ram

and now im waiting for some more simm to be delivered :\

[toadlife]

BTW, I made a PBI for PCBSD. It integrates Firefox and Thunderbird so they use eachother when links are clicked.

http://www.pcbsd.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2359

In Linux distros do Firefox and Thunderbird normally use eachother?

[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.

[piratePenguin]

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.

GNOME can do that, and I think KDE can too. "Desktop > Preferences > Preferred Applications" in GNOME.

[toadlife]

GNOME can do that, and I think KDE can too. "Desktop > Preferences > Preferred Applications" in GNOME.

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]

Setting your default email and web clients to thunderbird and mozilla in KDE does nothing.

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]

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.

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]

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?

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.

[toadlife]

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.

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]

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?

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]

GNOME can do that, and I think KDE can too. "Desktop > Preferences > Preferred Applications" in GNOME.

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]

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.

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.