Once upon a time Wednesday 07 July 2004 7:18 am, Marius Andreiana wrote: > On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 12:04 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote: > > What about kde, xfce? they do not use gconf... Isn't that a job for > > mime-types? > > AFAIK, mime-types tell what applications can open a type of file (html, > http:// ... ), but don't allow a user to specify which is the default. > > So how do KDE users choose which browser to use? (a la gnome preferred > apps). I guess it's different in every DE, which makes sense. In GNOME > default is epiphany, in KDE is konqueror. KDE uses the KDE Control Center to specify default applications. Dennis