[plug] Evolution defaults ...

[Gavin Chester]

I put my own advice to the test by changing the browser association,
and ... it didn't work :-/

I also tried the method listed here:
<http://www.compatdb.org/support/topics/161159_using_evolution_email_with_firefox_browser.html>
and neither the gnome nor kde method worked for me either.

YMMV, but this has me stumped now. I've set a different browser than
firefox everywhere that I can imagine, but still firefox persists as my
default file association from evolution :-/

Gavin

On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 21:37 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-12-05 at 20:33 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> > hi all,
> > 
> > Some of you may have remembered the post I made a while ago about SUE
> > destroying my 10.3 installation with their "last security update".
> > 
> > I have since installed SUSE 11.2 (I know, but I'm used to it, and it is
> > a work machine ...)
> 
> Stick with what you know well, eh :-) Why not, I still like it.
> 
> 
> > Since then, when I click on a URL in Evolution, I get messages that say
> > "epiphany doesn't exist" (well that's not the EXACT message, but you get
> > the idea ...
> 
> Evo is a gnomey thing, so I think I'm right in believing epiphany is
> gnome's default browser. Anyway, I _think_ the way to get it associating
> html links with another browser is to install the gnome app
> "gconf-editor". You may already have it. There's usually no menu link
> for it - type that at a cli and see what you get.
> 
> *** ASIDE: aint bash great these days? Gone is the cryptic "not found"
> or whatever. Now bash says really _smart_ things like suggesting the
> full path to an app, or telling you it's not installed and how to
> install it. Makes the cli much more user friendly even for novices
> ***   
> 
> Once gconf-editor is running drill down to
> "/desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec" key. Highlight (choose) it in
> the right window and/or then right-click to edit the key value, typing
> in the new default browser in the relevant box. 
> There is no 'save' button, just quit gconf-editor and the changes are
> made. Probably have to restart your session to have changes in effect.  
> 
> > I have Googled to find how to adjust volution, but it's all ooolllddd.
> > Anybody know how to change the default browser? And it's KDE - KDE 4.3
> > is not nearly as bad as KDE 4.x was ....
> 
> Yeh, when I upgraded to opensuse 11.1 with kde 4.1, I found the desktop
> so awful and taxing on my aging laptop that I ditched it in favour of
> icewm (btw: tried xfce4 again first, but seems to have lost its trimness
> and also bogged down my system).
> 
> Gavin 
>