On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 11:16 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 10:31 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 10:10 -0400, Art Alexion wrote: > > > I'm not absolutely certain, but I understood that firefox is not a > > > gnome > > > app, just built with gtk+ (like a qt app that isn't full blown KDE). > > > You don't need to load gnome to run firefox (or gtk+ based > > > openoffice). > > > You will need gnome to run evolution, though. > > > > And to allow clicking on mailto: links from Firefox pages. If you open > > about:config in FF, you'll find no reference to Evolution even if it's > > configured as your mail client, so I conclude that FF is using the Gnome > > config system for this. > > Except I have a KDE PC (Kubuntu) that doesn't have any gnome installed. > I specifically did not install firefox from the Ubuntu repositories > because it wanted to install gnome. Instead I installed it from > mozilla.com and put it statically in /opt and it runs fine. Admittedly > the mailto links open kmail, but I just set that in ff's about:config.
Actually (I hadn't know this till I saw your reply) there are easier ways: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Changing+the+e-mail+program +used+by+Firefox poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
