Default mailto application on Fedora 17

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2013-01-05 at 21:30 -0800, Dave Close wrote:
> I'm running Fedora 17 with the KDE desktop. KDE's system settings
> ("control panel") claims the default mailto application is Kmail. And,
> since Gnome is still present, I see that it thinks the default mailto
> application is Evolution. I don't see anything in /etc/alternatives
> that seems relevant to a mailto handler.
> 
> Firefox says, "Firefox normally uses your operating
> system's default mail program to send an e-mail message."
> <http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-program-used-open-email-links>)
> But Firefox says the default handler is Thunderbird. Where the hell is
> Firefox finding that value? And Firefox doesn't offer either of the
> other two "defaults", Kmail or Evolution, as options (except through
> the "other program" mechanism).
> 
> Can anyone explain what's going on?
> 
> I'd like to change the mailto handler. But I need to pass some arguments
> to my program and Firefox doesn't offer that ability itself. To get that
> ability, I need to be able to change the system default so that Firefox
> recognizes the change. But where is Firefox finding the "default"?
> -- 
>          Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA       +1 714 434 7359
>        dave at compata.com              dhclose at alumni.caltech.edu
>    "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here."
>               
In Gnome you change the Defaults in:
 Applications-:System Tools->System Settings-> Defaults. Something similar should be in KDE,
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