FC5 Firefox and KMail

[Peter Reed]

Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Saturday 05 August 2006 12:29, Nigel Henry wrote:
>> On Saturday 05 August 2006 01:40, Jack Gates wrote:
>>> On Friday 04 August 2006 19:15, Nigel Henry wrote:
>>>>> You lost me with the Main menu.  What application?
>>> Not trying to be rude but you did not look real close at the subject
>>> line. FC5
>> Very sorry about that Jack. It was a case of not being able to see the wood
>> for the trees.
>>
>> I'll have a look on my FC5 install, and see if I can find out how this is
>> done.
>>
>>> Your instructions above are of no value for FC5
>>>
>>> I remember those settings from FC2, the configuration in FC5 is way
>>> different.  I am still trying to figure out where things are and what
>>> is not here any more and what is new that works better.  Things
>>> changed a lot from FC2 to FC5.  I was real comfortable with FC2
>>> because I used it for two years.  I made the change from FC2 to FC5
>>> in one leap skipping over using FC3 and FC4.  I did an upgrade
>>> install in about 4 hours from FC2, FC3, FC4, FC5, this was the only
>>> way I could get the upgrade install to work.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jack Gates http://www.morningstarcom.net/
>> Nigel.
> 
> 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, where you can find it in "System > preferences > more 
> preferences > preferred applications" , and then just change the default mail 
> agent to Kmail, as you did with FC2.
> 
> Seems a bit daft removing it from KDEs menu to me.
> 
> I'm not, but if you never use Gnome, and are autologging into KDE, you 
> presumably then have to mess about with stuff to get into Gnome to make the 
> change.
> 
> Nigel.
> 

In KDE choose Control Center then KDE Components, then Component 
Chooser.  You can choose Email Client other regularly used programs.
Peter