Excerpts from Nilesh Govindarajan's message of 2010-06-14 18:28:24 +0200: > On 06/14/2010 09:07 PM, Philipp Überbacher wrote: > > Excerpts from Nilesh Govindarajan's message of 2010-06-14 17:09:26 +0200: > >> I am a full time KDE user and I don't have GNOME or its libraries. > >> Firefox and Thunderbird keep asking me to choose applications to open > >> .pdf, .doc, .xls, http://, etc. > >> Is there no package which can fix the file associations for FF and TB ? > > > > That's likely some xdg stuff. It usually works using gnome, KDE and xfce > > but nothing else. KDE probably has some preferences thing somewhere, > > otherwise you're pretty much as f..... as everyone who doesn't use a big > > DE. Hurray for 'Desktop Integration'.. > > I don't think so. > xdg-settings --list gives on default-web-browser. You can't use xdg-settings when you don't have one of the major DEs running, xdg-open falls back to a hardcoded array of browsers in that case. It's all quite awkward if you don't use gnome, kde or xfce. I know, doesn't really help with your problem.. -- Regards, Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
