Component chooser kcm

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Jens Reuterberg <jens at ohyran.se> wrote:
> I think its a lot more complex - because in reality what is KDE? If KDE is
> ment to be a set of applications which also have a desktop available then the
> applications should be able to set preferred browser or if nothing else pick
> up what browser is preferred by the desktop (unless stated elsewhere by a
> desktop with the possibility to pick per-app preferences)
>
> If we are a desktop which also provides a large set of applications then we
> can safely assume that this is entirely up to the desktop in question.
>
> We could argue that its not our fault that other DE's are so hopelessly
> outdated but that wouldn't gain us anything.
>
> Is there something that stops us from letting Konsole check what the preferred
> browser is in whatever DE is available? Or is it that they simply don't tell
> what that is?
>
> On Monday 08 June 2015 11:58:47 David Edmundson wrote:
>> If it was a KDE specific thing, maybe there'd be an argument but this just
>> modifies standard fd.o local mimedb.
>>
>> Any reasonable desktop (Plasma, XFCE and probably Gnome) will provide a GUI
>> to change them.
>> If people choose to run a desktop that doesn't provide all the tools you
>> need, they deserve to edit the file by hand or you should choose a desktop
>> that does.
>>
>> David
>
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Therefore, KDE Applications should integrate with any OS it works on.

All OS X, Windows and any non-Plasma FOSS desktop environment have the
"default browser" concept.

Aleix