On 03/29/2012 12:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-29 at 12:18 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 03/29/2012 12:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >>> By no means: >>> >>> 1) It *is* a kludge and is clearly brittle e.g. Chrome makes certain >>> choices based on the desktop environment, such as which password store >>> to use. Forcing it to think it's in Gnome when it really isn't means >>> these factors also need to be worked around. >>> >>> 2) The kludge happens to work for Chrome because the latter is a GTK >>> app. It's not a general solution. >>> >>> 3) It took a lot of effort to find, i.e. the "solution" is not easily >>> discoverable, and in fact works by *not* using anything in the KDE >>> environment. My original comment about this being too hard still stands. >> So, you will file a bugzilla with the Chrome folks, right? :-) > Once again, this is not a problem with Chrome! The particular kludge > happens to work with Chrome, but it's not a general solution to the > problem of setting a protocol handler in KDE. > > I will consider filing a BZ with KDE though. Why do you think it is not a problem with Chrome? If Chrome doesn't make program selections based on the O/S it is running on then??? What do you want to happen? How will the OS influence what Chrome is calling to complete an action it can't complete on its own? > >> With FF, the solution is to edit their settings in about:config, right? It somehow >> knew about "transmission" but not about "ktorrent" so the "fix" (I believe) would >> have to go there. > In fact both KDE and Gnome are supposed to use the XDG standard for > making these decisions, which in Fedora is expressed through a bunch of > Shell scripts (look for /usr/bin/xdg-*). The browsers have their own > mechanisms as well, but as we've seen they don't necessarily mesh well > with the DE. Maybe the division of responsibilities isn't clear enough, > I don't really know. If the browsers mechanisms don't mesh with the DE then "who" is responsible to fixing it? > >> Whose effort found the solution? :-) :-) > I appreciate your efforts Ed, but I hope you'll understand that IMHO > even a working kludge is not the same as a solution. > I did indeed say it was a "kludge" so I'm sure I know the difference. :-) The point however is...at the moment you've only got a "kludge" as an option....as far as I can tell. :-( Yes, you're welcome. -- Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. -- Dandemis _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
