[plug] evolution email file association

[Gavin Chester]

On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 13:17 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> Might help:
> 
> "To change the default browser if you are not using GNOME, do:"
> "gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command -t string
> 'mozilla %s'"
> "gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command -t string
> 'mozilla %s'"
> 
> "Replace 'mozilla %s' with which ever browser you use."
> 
> This is printed out at the end of the evolution install on gentoo.  I
> use the gnome desktop (where it works fine) so it might/might not apply
> to KDE in your case.  GUI's only cover a subset (seems small in gnomes
> case in fact) of the available commands.

Thanks, Bill
I tried your suggestion and I tried simply logoff/logon, but neither
seemed to make a difference to evo's behaviour :-(. I've learnt from you
that gconf has deeper levels accessible via cli, but couldn't find a man
entry that seemed to fit, nor the exact entry as reproduced by you
above. Maybe the syntax is not quite right for my situation; should it
instead be mozillafirefox, just firefox, or what? Also, there is the
unknown of whether a gnomey tool (gconf) is really controlling a gnomey
app in a kde desktop? 

Either way, the problem is a first for this install and previous evo
upgrades have not caused this. Maybe I have to slope off to the evo
user's list :-/

Gavin 

> On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 11:39 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > I upgraded evolution email the other day and am experiencing a change of
> > behaviour with its file association. FYI: Evo 2.12.0 on kde 3.5.9.
> > 
> > Previously, when right-clicking a url within an email to bring up the
> > context menu, the option "open in browser" would use firefox without
> > fault. Now it opens a new instance of konqueror.
> > 
> > I checked that gnomey-thing 'gconf-editor', but found no file
> > association under evolution. I then checked file associations in kde's
> > control centre and html was set to konqueror so I changed to firefox. It
> > doesn't seem to make a difference. Is this a case of having to
> > logoff/logon to see the changes take effect, or am I looking in the
> > wrong place?
> > 
> > Gavin
> > 
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