I wonder if you browser itself doesn't keep that setting separate, not listing to KDE... B-) On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:45 pm, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

On Thursday 02 December 2004 14:41, Jake wrote:

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On Thursday 02 December 2004 19:59, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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I just installed 9.2 and discovered that Evolution is my default e-mail program. Where do I look to find out how to make Kmail the default?

Presumably you're using Gnome, although you don't say. In KDE I would: Control Centre > KDE components > Component Chooser and point it at the email client of my choice.

Thank you for your quick response to my question.

I already tried that with KDE's Control Center. The Email Client menu has "Use KMail as preferred email client" checked. Something else must be required to let me call up Kmail when I click on an e-mail address while browsing the Internet.

dj tuchler

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Gnome must have an equivalent place to set these things, can't be that difficult to find.

IIRC, firefox DOESN'T handle mailto: you have to use a plugin to do that like launchy. That is where you would need to check the settings. B-) On Thursday 02 December 2004 02:11 pm, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

On Thursday 02 December 2004 15:19, Brad Bourn wrote:

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I wonder if you browser itself doesn't keep that setting separate, not listing to KDE...

I looked. I use Firefox and there is nothing in the Preferences area that affects the choice of e-mail application.

dj tuchler

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B-)

On Thursday 02 December 2004 01:45 pm, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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On Thursday 02 December 2004 14:41, Jake wrote:

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On Thursday 02 December 2004 19:59, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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I just installed 9.2 and discovered that Evolution is my default e-mail program. Where do I look to find out how to make Kmail the default?

Presumably you're using Gnome, although you don't say. In KDE I would: Control Centre > KDE components > Component Chooser and point it at the email client of my choice.

Thank you for your quick response to my question.

I already tried that with KDE's Control Center. The Email Client menu has "Use KMail as preferred email client" checked. Something else must be required to let me call up Kmail when I click on an e-mail address while browsing the Internet.

dj tuchler

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Gnome must have an equivalent place to set these things, can't be that difficult to find.

In a previous message, Doug B wrote:

Type about:config into the address bar. In the filter bar type mailto

You should have: network.protocol-handler.expose.mailto default boolean true network.protocol-handler.external.mailto default boolean true

I had to add:

network.protocol-handler.app.mailto user set string kmail

Doesn't work here - I just get "mailto is not a registered protocol". I just wish that mozex would be updated for firefox 1.0 - Launchy isn't as transparent in use )mozex uses a normal left click to launch the email app, whereas Launchy requires a right menu click and a selection from that menu). John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Knossos: escape the ever-changing labyrinth before the Minotaur catches you!

I've never seen this before... pretty cool! how do you get rid of values already there? I have 2 extra ones now... mozex.intercept.mailto and network.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailto Are you saying that firefox will handle mailto by itself now? This is awesome! B-) On Thursday 02 December 2004 07:32 pm, Doug B wrote:

On Thursday 02 December 2004 03:11 pm, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:

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On Thursday 02 December 2004 15:19, Brad Bourn wrote:

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I wonder if you browser itself doesn't keep that setting separate, not listing to KDE...

I looked. I use Firefox and there is nothing in the Preferences area that affects the choice of e-mail application.

Type about:config into the address bar. In the filter bar type mailto

You should have: network.protocol-handler.expose.mailto default boolean true network.protocol-handler.external.mailto default boolean true

I had to add:

network.protocol-handler.app.mailto user set string kmail

To do that, right click anywhere in the window body > new > string

use network.protocol-handler.app.mailto for the name and kmail for the string value.

Good luck

Doug

Turns out that it just works anyway.... Didn't need to remove those extra lines.. B-) On Friday 03 December 2004 07:22 pm, Doug B wrote:

On Friday 03 December 2004 08:53 am, Brad Bourn wrote:

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I've never seen this before...

pretty cool!

how do you get rid of values already there?

I have 2 extra ones now... mozex.intercept.mailto and network.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailto

Are you saying that firefox will handle mailto by itself now? This is awesome!

I learned this about a year ago (I think it was on this list). I never tried to remove one before and don't see an intuitive way in 'about:config', but there might be a way from there.

The file that holds the config is ~/.mozilla/firefox/cvzuvm7i.default/prefs.js

(path may be a little different on your machine)

The comments in the file mention a url for configuration help, but I haven't been there yet. It might show a way. You could just edit the file manually, but make sure you don't have the browser running as it will apparently regenerate the file on exit (and it would be a good idea to back it up first).

Hope that helps Doug