default mail app

[Rahul Sundaram]

John Aldrich wrote:
> On Friday 10 November 2006 5:25 am, Rob Andrews wrote:
>> On 09-Nov-2006 18:00.05 (GMT), John Aldrich wrote:
>>  > > Hi John. Preferred applications used to be on KDE's menu, but no
>>  > > longer is, but if you go to /usr/share/applications, and double click
>>  > > on "gnome-default-applications" you can change the default mailreader.
>>  >
>>  > I really wish that if Fedora is going to package KDE and Gnome, that
>>  > they would make it easier to change the default apps... it's annoying as
>>  > hell! :/
>>
>> You'll find a section called "Preferred Applications" in your GNOME
>> Preferences menu. This will allow you to change the default mail
>> application.
>>
>> As for KDE, I really don't know.
>>
> And that, I think, is the problem. Fedora/RedHat expects you to make the 
> appropriate changes in Gnome, or at least relies on the Gnome settings for 
> the defaults. 

Thats not true. GNOME and KDE just use their own settings. There is no 
modifications done on them in Fedora so setting preferences in GNOME 
wouldnt affect KDE at all.

What we need is a *unified*, Window-manager-neutral way of
> specifying the default apps. *shrug* Oh, well... at least I've got my default 
> apps set now, finally. :-)

Sure but this is generally tackled by upstream projects rather than 
distribution specific hacks. For example, the portland project has 
produced a assorted set of tools available in the xdg-utils package (in 
Fedora Extras) which provides command line window manager neutral tools 
for many things including setting common application preferences.

Rahul