On Saturday 05 August 2006 22:37, Claude Jones wrote: > On Sat August 5 2006 3:07 pm, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Saturday 05 August 2006 21:08, Claude Jones wrote: > > > On Sat August 5 2006 12:03 pm, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > > As "Preferred Applications" is no longer is on KDE's menu, > > > > it appears the only way to change the default for the mail > > > > agent, is to logout of KDE, log back in to Gnome > > > > > > Nigel: This is not true. See my earlier post. From a user > > > command prompt in KDE, just run > > > "gnome-default-applications-properties" - > > > > Point taken, but you have to know that command to use it, > > whereas "Preferred Applications" that was on KDEs menu was > > pretty much self explanatory, and still doesn't make sense why > > it was removed. > > Well, I don't remember that menu item, and I've used KDE for as > long as I've used Linux, but that doesn't mean it didn't exist - > I'm perfectly capable of glossing over something many times > before noticing it. I'm just wondering if you're possibly > thinking of the "KDE Components" item, which can be accessed > via "KDE Menu button/Settings/KDE Components" or alternatively, > through KDE's Control Center - there's a preferred email client > selection in there, but it won't accomplish what the OP desired, > which is to make 'mailto:'s in Firefox pop a kmail window. Even > in a KDE desktop environment, there appears to still be some > things controlled by gnome settings, which has to do with the > Fedora project's baseline preferred way of doing things. > > -- > Claude Jones > Brunswick, Md, USA In KDE on FC2 it's in "Main Menu > Preferences > Preferred Applications". Nigel.
