Firefox and mime type handling is gconf specific :-(

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 7:11 AM, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at> wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 July 2008, Dan Kegel wrote:
> > Overheard at work:
> > "It looks like Firefox 3 made the decision to query the OS for mime /
> > url handling. For instance, if we set the default picasa:// url
> > handler in GConf, then Firefox 3 knows what to do. The problem is,
> > GConf is Firefox's concept of "the OS" on Unix. (they say KDE didn't
> > help with integration and prefer Konqueror anyway)
>
> This is most likely just an excuse.
>

Dan's reporting something he heard someone say about what some Mozilla
developer said. I wouldn't put too much stock in it :-).

The fact is that Mozilla's paid developers don't have the energy to maintain
two X/Linux ports. No volunteers have come forward to maintain a Qt port or
contribute KDE integration points. So it hasn't happened.

I was hoping through the efforts of desktop-architects and others that this
would be solved at the toolkit level, so a GTK app would just work well in a
KDE environment and we wouldn't have to write a lot of new code. We still
seem to be pretty far away from that :-(.

Rob
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