FC5 Firefox and KMail

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 05 August 2006 22:37, Claude Jones wrote:
> On Sat August 5 2006 3:07 pm, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 August 2006 21:08, Claude Jones wrote:
> > > On Sat August 5 2006 12:03 pm, Nigel Henry wrote:
> > > > As "Preferred Applications" is no longer is on KDE's menu,
> > > > it appears the only way to change the default for the mail
> > > > agent, is to logout of KDE, log back in to Gnome
> > >
> > > Nigel: This is not true. See my earlier post. From a user
> > > command prompt in KDE, just run
> > > "gnome-default-applications-properties" -
> >
> > Point taken, but you have to know that command to use it,
> > whereas "Preferred Applications" that was on KDEs menu was
> > pretty much self explanatory, and still doesn't make sense why
> > it was removed.
>
> Well, I don't remember that menu item, and I've used KDE for as
> long as I've used Linux, but that doesn't mean it didn't exist -
> I'm perfectly capable of glossing over something many times
> before noticing it. I'm just wondering if you're possibly
> thinking of the "KDE Components" item, which can be accessed
> via "KDE Menu button/Settings/KDE Components" or alternatively,
> through KDE's Control Center - there's a preferred email client
> selection in there, but it won't accomplish what the OP desired,
> which is to make 'mailto:'s in Firefox pop a kmail window. Even
> in a KDE desktop environment, there appears to still be some
> things controlled by gnome settings, which has to do with the
> Fedora project's baseline preferred way of doing things.
>
> --
> Claude Jones
> Brunswick, Md, USA

In KDE on FC2 it's in "Main Menu > Preferences > Preferred Applications".

Nigel.