Evolution (again)

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 17 March 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 14:48 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 20:10 +0200, Sur wrote:
>> > * Gene Heskett wrote, On 03/16/2008 05:48 PM:
>> > > On Sunday 16 March 2008, Sur wrote:
>> > >> * Gene Heskett wrote, On 03/16/2008 07:14 AM:
>> > >>> On Sunday 16 March 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> > >>>> On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 23:23 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> > >>>>> Greetings all;
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> How do I go about making FF3b4 use kmail for its default email
>> > >>>>> agent when the link clicked on is of the form "mailto: name at FQDN"?
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> I did have it using kmail (I use only kde), but some update seems
>> > >>>>> to have undone me and I can't find any mention of Evolution in the
>> > >>>>> control center settings, nor in FF's about:config.  I can't just
>> > >>>>> remove evolution as it takes aabout 500 megs worth of other stuff
>> > >>>>> I do use with it & that sucks a very high vacuum IMO.
>> > >>>>>
>> > >>>>> I've been looking for it for about 2 hours now.  Somebody please
>> > >>>>> throw me a lifesaver...
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> Gnome Control Center->Preferred Applications->Mail Reader. Note
>> > >>>> that it has nothing to do with FF as such; it's a desktop setting.
>> > >>>>
>> > >>>> poc
>> > >>>
>> > >>> As I said, I'm running kde, and there is no such thing in its
>> > >>> control center. In "control center->kde components->Email client"
>> > >>> screen, the use kmail button is checked.  For FF3b4, no effect.
>> > >>
>> > >> $ sudo yum install gconf-editor
>> > >> $ gconf-editor /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/command
>> > >
>> > > In my case it was in Settings-->Preferred Applications.  One menu item
>> > > in 2 screens full.
>> >
>> > Well, you do have Gnome (and its control-center) installed then.
>> > Menus get polluted when you install multiple desktops, you need to deal
>> > with that.
>> > What you did was simply what the previous poster suggested.
>>
>> Why configure KDE with a Gnome app??
>
>You're not configuring KDE. FF is packaged as a Gnome app, so it
>interacts with the Gconf stuff (Gnome's equivalent of the Windows
>Registry), meaning you configure its properties from the Gnome control
>panel (if using Gnome) or equivalently gnome-control-center (or
>gconf-editor if you want to get down to the details). Same goes for
>Evolution BTW.
>
>OT: as a KDE user of many years standing, it still annoys me that KDE is
>a second-class citizen in Fedora. Sure it's supported, but essentially
>all the Fedora documentation assumes that you're using Gnome. Thus when
>discussing Network Manager for example, we're recommended to use
>nm-applet, which only works if you're running the Gnome desktop.
>
So we've noted, and have objected strenuously to in the past if you check the 
archives.  Even Linus has panned gnome heartily and runs kde.  Fedora 
emasculates kde, claiming legal problems or some such pablum, but IMO its 
really so gnome will look better.  The proof to me?  Back at FC2, I got tired 
of that, and built kde using the 'konstruct' system.  Wow!  Everything 
worked, bulletproof stability.  But running yum was dangerous because you 
never knew when some yum dependency was going to over write the home grown 
stuff.  And yum did eventually destroy the system, but I ran it till FC6 was 
out.

I'd still be running FC6 if something hadn't wiped LSN0 on the drive, that 
sorta forces one to re-install.  Thanks to amanda, it was not a total 
disaster & life goes on.

Thanks, poc.

>poc



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