Re: [Evolution] Evolution and Firefox

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 11:16 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 10:31 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 10:10 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> > > I'm not absolutely certain, but I understood that firefox is not a
> > > gnome
> > > app, just built with gtk+ (like a qt app that isn't full blown KDE).
> > > You don't need to load gnome to run firefox (or gtk+ based
> > > openoffice).
> > > You will need gnome to run evolution, though.
> >
> > And to allow clicking on mailto: links from Firefox pages. If you open
> > about:config in FF, you'll find no reference to Evolution even if it's
> > configured as your mail client, so I conclude that FF is using the Gnome
> > config system for this.
>
> Except I have a KDE PC (Kubuntu) that doesn't have any gnome installed.
> I specifically did not install firefox from the Ubuntu repositories
> because it wanted to install gnome.  Instead I installed it from
> mozilla.com and put it statically in /opt and it runs fine.  Admittedly
> the mailto links open kmail, but I just set that in ff's about:config.  

Actually (I hadn't know this till I saw your reply) there are easier
ways: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Changing+the+e-mail+program
+used+by+Firefox

poc