From kde-core-devel Sat Nov 29 15:10:05 2008 From: "Mark Kretschmann" Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:10:05 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: KDE applications need kfmclient to open links, Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=122797146505255 On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Diederik van der Boor wrote: > Op Tuesday 25 November 2008 21:44:25 David Faure schreef: >> > Another thing: Wouldn't it make sense to use the default broswer on the >> > installed system (sensible-browser, x-www-browser or whatever) if no >> > default browser is chosen in KDE? Encouraging people to use Konqueror is >> > nice for sure, but the user does have to change his default browser in >> > one less place then. >> >> No, this goes way too far. Someone trying KDE should at least be able to >> enjoy the good integration with konqueror, before deciding if he/she wants >> it or not. If KDE launches x-www-browser (*) by default (which is old >> Mozilla here), we lose that (and basically this kills konqueror, given that >> most people do not change defaults). A sensible default for KDE _is_ >> konqueror; people can switch to something else if they want. >> >> >> (*) sensible-browser defaults to x-www-browser unless $BROWSER is set, so >> this is old mozilla again here. Nice... > > I disagree here. People are running KDE applications outside of KDE, why > should we enforce them to use more of KDE? > > For example, I got multiple requests from GNOME users why KMess wasn't opening > their default browser (firefox), and how they could change that. > We constantly had to answer how they to install kdebase and navigate through > KControl. Nowadays we've added a "preferred browser" option in our settings > dialog as workaround. Amarok 1 also does this. > > This is quite an ugly fix to deal with reality, and I would prefer to see > instead that KDE respects the preferred browser setting of the active desktop > (whether it's GNOME, Windows XP or MacOS). > > If you're worried this kills Konqueror, isn't that what _defaults_ are meant > for? But if the user wants to move away from those defaults, it should not be > utter pain. I have to agree here with Diederik. Your arguments make sense and are hard to dispute. -- Mark Kretschmann Amarok Developer www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org