[plug] evolution email file association

[W.Kenworthy]

Hi Gavin, not sure about ubuntu as I mainly use gentoo/fedora.

On gentoo, "firefox" is a short script that sets the environment and
calls a file that lives outside the normal path.  The actual running
program is different again - "firefox-bin"

Try calling firefox manually from a terminal - if that doesnt work, you
have a handle on the problem.  If it does, the problem is more likely a
kde/evo/gnome problem - perhaps an email to the evo lists (or a search
for the kde keyword on those lists) may help?

or a quick goggle turned up this :)
http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/users/2004-April/013481.html

BillK



On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 15:45 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> 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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