[plug] evolution email file association

[Gavin Chester]

On Sat, 2008-07-12 at 15:12 +0800, Nigel Duff wrote:
> Hi Gavin,
> 
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:45:05PM +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 09:20 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for your continuing input, Bill :-) Just as well I didn't
> > embarrass myself on the evo list, since the problem seems to be
> > widespread for all apps that offer links to html :-) Never used to be
> > this way until a recent update of some apps, so by coincidence I blamed
> > evo. It's got me frustrated, because I've changed every instance of file
> > associations I can find in kde but no go. Oh well, learn to live with
> > it. I simply right click and copy a url to my clipboard, rather than
> > right click and open in browser. Adapt and survive ;-)
> 
> Can't remember if for said you did it or not but did you try;
> 
> gnome-control-center -> Preferred Applications -> Web Browser ?

yeh, tried the gui and the cli of gconf but no good. Anyway, I use kde
with just a few gnome apps. I realise now the changed behaviour is not
confined to evo. Some upgrade changed the preferred browser with no
apparent way to change back. Oh well :-/

Gavin