On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Colin J Thomson <colin.thomson@g6avk.co.uk> wrote:
Just FYI I can confirm the same behaviour/error on this box when trying to
set/change to another browser. As far as I can tell the syntax is right.

xdg-settings set default-web-browser qupzilla.desktop

Colin, can you check to see if Chromium installed another version of xdg-settings on your machine?  Chrome installs a version - not sure if it's older, newer or
modified in some way.   Also, not sure if it makes a difference one way or another.  I wanted to test, but still waiting for the kde-unstable repo to become 
available again.