KDE applications need kfmclient to open links, which is not shipped with kdebase/runtime

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Diederik van der Boor
<vdboor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Op Tuesday 25 November 2008 21:44:25 David Faure schreef:
>> > Another thing: Wouldn't it make sense to use the default broswer on the
>> > installed system (sensible-browser, x-www-browser or whatever) if no
>> > default browser is chosen in KDE? Encouraging people to use Konqueror is
>> > nice for sure, but the user does have to change his default browser in
>> > one less place then.
>>
>> No, this goes way too far. Someone trying KDE should at least be able to
>> enjoy the good integration with konqueror, before deciding if he/she wants
>> it or not. If KDE launches x-www-browser (*) by default (which is old
>> Mozilla here), we lose that (and basically this kills konqueror, given that
>> most people do not change defaults). A sensible default for KDE _is_
>> konqueror; people can switch to something else if they want.
>>
>>
>> (*) sensible-browser defaults to x-www-browser unless $BROWSER is set, so
>> this is old mozilla again here. Nice...
>
> I disagree here. People are running KDE applications outside of KDE, why
> should we enforce them to use more of KDE?
>
> For example, I got multiple requests from GNOME users why KMess wasn't opening
> their default browser (firefox), and how they could change that.
> We constantly had to answer how they to install kdebase and navigate through
> KControl. Nowadays we've added a "preferred browser" option in our settings
> dialog as workaround. Amarok 1 also does this.
>
> This is quite an ugly fix to deal with reality, and I would prefer to see
> instead that KDE respects the preferred browser setting of the active desktop
> (whether it's GNOME, Windows XP or MacOS).
>
> If you're worried this kills Konqueror, isn't that what _defaults_ are meant
> for? But if the user wants to move away from those defaults, it should not be
> utter pain.

I have to agree here with Diederik. Your arguments make sense and are
hard to dispute.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org