Preferred Applications

[Emmanuel Benisty]

Thanks Jasper,

As it is possible with GConf, I thought maybe... nevermind I will not
revert to others DM ; )

BTW, before I start googlin' (sorry I should do that first but some
xfce users may be interested... ; ), do you know how to setup TB to do
this ?

Cheers,

M 

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 10:23:25 +0100, Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:
> 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
>