Re: [kde-linux] Konqueror stealing URI

Phil wrote:
I am running KDE 3.5 on Debian testing.

I have configured KDE to use Firefox as the default web browser,
however, when I click on a URI in an email message in Thunderbird,
Konqueror grabs the URL, tries to download the web page and then directs
Firefox to open the saved page. If Konqueror is successful at
downloading the page, it does open in Firefox. But it is just the saved
file, not the actual web page.

How do I get Konqueror to let go my URI?

Also, I can not get KDE to start Thunderbird as my default email
software. How to I get this to happen. I would like to be able to click
on an email address and have Thunderbird start with the "compose" page
active.

Hmmm, shades of Microsoft...

The problem is that we don't yet have a standard way to configure MIME
type to application link.

So, you will have to configure in more than one place to get your
DeskTop to do what you want.

There is no such thing in KDE as a "Web Browser" (actually most apps
considered to be "Web Browsers" will also browse your local file system)
and we have no way to configure different MIME associations based on the
protocol being used. Except that for "http" & "https" you can choose to
start the URL in a specified Browser.

Your specific problem with URLs can probably be cured by, in the Control
Center going to:

KDE Components -> Component Chooser

There you can select some default components to be used when running the
KDE DeskTop.

Select: "Web Browser" and choose the "in the following browser" option
in the radio and select your browser in the box. Note that this will
ONLY affect URLs that start with "http://"; or "https://";. Other URLs
will still be opened in Konqueror if selected from a KDE application.
Also note that when these URLs open in Firefox that you must select the
MIME type association in Firefox.

After you do this, you will probably want to undo the changes you made
to the KDE File Association for: "text/html". That is, if you have an
HTML file on your system, you probably want it to open in Konqueror as
the default.

In the same place in the Control Center, you can also select your
default "email client". This will determine what KDE applications do
with a "mailto:"; URL.

Now other non-KDE applications will (probably) not use these setting and
must be configured separately. The XDG project is working on
standardizing these things and if the developers can stop fighting about
it, it may happen eventually.

--
JRT
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