[opensuse] Firefox uses Kmail
On my 12.1 system, I have Thunderbird configured to be the default email program. However, for some reason, Firefox wants to use Kmail, when I click on an email link. I do not see any setting in Firefox that would control this and don't know why it's not using the default Thunderbird. Any ideas? tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello On 1.1.2012 23:10, James Knott wrote:
On my 12.1 system, I have Thunderbird configured to be the default email program. However, for some reason, Firefox wants to use Kmail, when I click on an email link. I do not see any setting in Firefox that would control this and don't know why it's not using the default Thunderbird.
Did You go to Firefox | Preferences | Aplications, searched for "mailto" and checked "Action"?
Any ideas?
tnx jk
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Vojtěch Zeisek wrote:
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On 1.1.2012 23:10, James Knott wrote:
On my 12.1 system, I have Thunderbird configured to be the default email program. However, for some reason, Firefox wants to use Kmail, when I click on an email link. I do not see any setting in Firefox that would control this and don't know why it's not using the default Thunderbird. Did You go to Firefox | Preferences | Aplications, searched for "mailto" and checked "Action"?
That did it. tnx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
* James Knott
On my 12.1 system, I have Thunderbird configured to be the default email program. However, for some reason, Firefox wants to use Kmail, when I click on an email link. I do not see any setting in Firefox that would control this and don't know why it's not using the default Thunderbird.
Any ideas?
One you *should* know: Edit -> Preferences -> Applicatins -> mailto did you expect that firefox, not a kde app, would use system settings? -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* James Knott
[01-01-12 17:12]: On my 12.1 system, I have Thunderbird configured to be the default email program. However, for some reason, Firefox wants to use Kmail, when I click on an email link. I do not see any setting in Firefox that would control this and don't know why it's not using the default Thunderbird.
Any ideas? One you *should* know: Edit -> Preferences -> Applicatins -> mailto
did you expect that firefox, not a kde app, would use system settings?
I actually looked there, but missed mailto. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 1/1/2012 2:16 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
did you expect that firefox, not a kde app, would use system settings?
Is that too much to expect? -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
John Andersen said the following on 01/01/2012 06:46 PM:
On 1/1/2012 2:16 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
did you expect that firefox, not a kde app, would use system settings?
Is that too much to expect?
Yes it is. FF/TB are, when it comes down to it, Gnome applications, not KDE ones. Do you expect any/all Gnome applications to use KDE system settings simply because you run them under KDE? I mean distinctive ones like Gnome or Inkscape, or ones that have a better UI than their KDE equivalents, or even just because they are there like Evolution, ShotWell, SimpleScan or Tomboy -- The real problems of the world is not unanswered questions but unquestioned answers. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 1/1/2012 3:57 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
John Andersen said the following on 01/01/2012 06:46 PM:
On 1/1/2012 2:16 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
did you expect that firefox, not a kde app, would use system settings?
Is that too much to expect?
Yes it is. FF/TB are, when it comes down to it, Gnome applications, not KDE ones. Do you expect any/all Gnome applications to use KDE system settings simply because you run them under KDE?
Yes. I do. And FF is not a Gmome application. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Anton Aylward wrote:
Yes it is. FF/TB are, when it comes down to it, Gnome applications, not KDE ones. Do you expect any/all Gnome applications to use KDE system settings simply because you run them under KDE?
And why would a Gnome app default to a KDE app? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
James Knott said the following on 01/01/2012 07:13 PM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Yes it is. FF/TB are, when it comes down to it, Gnome applications, not KDE ones. Do you expect any/all Gnome applications to use KDE system settings simply because you run them under KDE?
And why would a Gnome app default to a KDE app?
Because a KDE user of Firefox configured it that way? Oh, you mean 'out of the box' on a virgin install? Surely Konqueror is the default browser for KDE, not Firefox. And surely an app that uses the gnomic settings ... oh right, we've now got GIO or something so all the experience and knowledge we gained about configuring Firefox and Thunderbird for KDE users has been changed. Think Moliere. -- Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -- George S. Patton -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Am 02.01.2012 01:48, schrieb Anton Aylward:
James Knott said the following on 01/01/2012 07:13 PM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
Yes it is. FF/TB are, when it comes down to it, Gnome applications, not KDE ones. Do you expect any/all Gnome applications to use KDE system settings simply because you run them under KDE?
And why would a Gnome app default to a KDE app?
Because a KDE user of Firefox configured it that way?
Oh, you mean 'out of the box' on a virgin install? Surely Konqueror is the default browser for KDE, not Firefox.
And surely an app that uses the gnomic settings ... oh right, we've now got GIO or something so all the experience and knowledge we gained about configuring Firefox and Thunderbird for KDE users has been changed. Think Moliere.
There seems to be a lot of confusion here. On openSUSE Firefox is the default browser also on KDE at the moment AFAIK. Also Firefox uses KDE system settings to figure out the default mailer _on openSUSE_. What does not work is to set Thunderbird as the default mailer from within its own interface as it only sets it for GIO (not KDE). It should be possible to set Thunderbird as default mailer in the KDE settings and Firefox would honor it. Or as in the beginning of the thread choose Thunderbird in Firefox' settings directly. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Am 02.01.2012 10:57, schrieb Wolfgang Rosenauer:
There seems to be a lot of confusion here. On openSUSE Firefox is the default browser also on KDE at the moment AFAIK. Also Firefox uses KDE system settings to figure out the default mailer _on openSUSE_. Which really works exactly that way on 11.4 (have also tested it on 12.1 where it works as well and respects the system settings of KDE).
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Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
It should be possible to set Thunderbird as default mailer in the KDE settings and Firefox would honor it.
Or as in the beginning of the thread choose Thunderbird in Firefox' settings directly.
FWIW, on another computer I have that's running 12.1, it did automagically pick Thunderbird as default. IIRC, Thunderbird has always been the default in the past too. There have been many times when I've emailed a link from Firefox and had Thunderbird open, even though Seamonkey was the email program I normally used. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 02/01/12 10:57, Anton Aylward wrote:
John Andersen said the following on 01/01/2012 06:46 PM:
On 1/1/2012 2:16 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
did you expect that firefox, not a kde app, would use system settings? Is that too much to expect? Yes it is. FF/TB are, when it comes down to it, Gnome applications, not KDE ones.
What does this have to do with the price of fish? An ordinary user is not expected to know this. Why does Thunderbird do the right thing but FF, from the same stable, does not?
Do you expect any/all Gnome applications to use KDE system settings simply because you run them under KDE?
Yep. Suse people fiddle with both TB and FF so why is TB "compliant" and FF not?
I mean distinctive ones like Gnome or Inkscape, or ones that have a better UI than their KDE equivalents, or even just because they are there like Evolution, ShotWell, SimpleScan or Tomboy
I repeat: what does this have to do with the price of fish? BC -- So, if a man cannot spot a problem in the making he cannot really be a wise leader. But very few men have this gift. Niccolo Machiavelli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
John Andersen wrote:
On 1/1/2012 2:16 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
did you expect that firefox, not a kde app, would use system settings?
Is that too much to expect?
Or if not follow the default, go with it's partner Thunderbird. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
participants (8)
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Anton Aylward
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Basil Chupin
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James Knott
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John Andersen
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Martin Helm
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Patrick Shanahan
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Vojtěch Zeisek
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Wolfgang Rosenauer