Preferred Applications

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Emmanuel Benisty wrote:
> Hi everyone !
> 
> Benny (on os-cillation forum) informed me that it was not possible to
> manage preferred application with xfce (for ex., Firefox is launched
> when link is clicked in e-mail client). My question was about
> Evolution and Benny explained me that it was an issue w/ Gnome. So
> here's the question, what about Non-Gnome applications ? Is it
> possible to launch FF when url is clicked in Thunderbird for ex. ?
> 

You have to set that in the application itself (thunderbird in this 
case). GNOME programs, like evolution, tend to use the global gnome 
settings; firefox/thunderbird can do that too depending on how they were 
compiled. In all cases it is still up to the application to handle this, 
not Xfce.

Unfortunately there is no standard that Xfce could use to change this 
behaviour for other programs. People on freedesktop.org are working on 
it, but progress is very slow.

	Jasper