On 01/27/2013 02:15 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2013-01-26 at 14:49 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When using chrome as my browser I want ktorrent used for opening magnet links. Originally transmission was being used and the following was the case.... >> >> [egreshko@meimei ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler magnet >> transmission-gtk.desktop >> >> So, I did.... >> >> xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler magnet ktorrent.desktop >> >> No matter how many times I executed that command the "get" still returned transmission-gtk.desktop. >> >> Finally I erased transmission-gtk and transmission-common. >> >> When I first executed the "get" it still returned transmission-gtk.desktop. I then did the "set" again, and finally ktorrent.desktop was returned and chrome used ktorrent as requested. >> >> So, can anyone give a suggestion as to why the "sets" failed to change the settings until transmission was removed from the system? >> > Did you logout/login between the set and the get? Yep.... > > As I'm sure you remember, we had a whole thread about this sort of thing > a while back: > > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/2012-March/011284.html > > Since I finally got it to work I didn't worry any more about it, but my > impression at the time was that this was due to a kludge somewhere in > the default protocol-handling setup, and that it was going to be fixed. > Looks like that hasn't happened yet. > Yeah, when I googled for the problem I ended up on that thread.... -- Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
