Setting a protocol handler

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Thu Mar 29 04:18:57 UTC 2012


On 03/29/2012 12:09 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> By no means:
>
> 1) It *is* a kludge and is clearly brittle e.g. Chrome makes certain
> choices based on the desktop environment, such as which password store
> to use. Forcing it to think it's in Gnome when it really isn't means
> these factors also need to be worked around.
>
> 2) The kludge happens to work for Chrome because the latter is a GTK
> app. It's not a general solution.
>
> 3) It took a lot of effort to find, i.e. the "solution" is not easily
> discoverable, and in fact works by *not* using anything in the KDE
> environment. My original comment about this being too hard still stands.

So, you will file a bugzilla with the Chrome folks, right?  :-)

With FF, the solution is to edit their settings in about:config, right?  It somehow
knew about "transmission" but not about "ktorrent" so the "fix" (I believe) would
have to go there.

Whose effort found the solution?  :-) :-)

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