Re: [Evolution] How does evolution pick the browser to open links with?

[Robert Munteanu <robert munteanu gmail com>]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 14:06 +0300, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2015-04-20 at 13:10 +0300, Robert Munteanu wrote:
> > > > > Evolution uses gtk_show_uri() to open most of the URIs, thus it
> > > > might
> > > > > be something with the function internals which breaks the opening.
> > > > > I thought they do use the x-scheme-handler settings.
> > > > >         Bye,
> > > > >         Milan
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the pointer, it lead me in the right direction. It seems
> > > > that gnome has a different store for such settings:
> > >
> > > Evo is a Gnome application, so generally speaking KDE settings don't
> > > affect it. This is also (indirectly) why there's so much hassle about
> > > getting the gnome-keyring to work under KDE.
> >
> > That makes sense. However, I had expected them to use the same config
> > store, since xdg-mime was convinced that the settings were correct.
>
> The irony is that the XDG stuff is designed precisely to smooth over the
> differences between desktop environments. I'm not sure why it doesn't in
> this case.

Indeed :-)

I think the xdg-mime script provides a common interface for querying
and setting preferences accross DEs. However, it does not provide a
unified store - or at least that's what my experience seems to
indicate.

Robert
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