---- On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 02:24:01 -0700 Kai Uwe Broulik <[email protected]> wrote ---- > Having all http(s) links open in a browser is one of the first settings > I change in a fresh setup as I dislike the delay it causes when clicking > links and there's also numerous complaints about this on BKO. Given web > browsers can even open PDFs and all sorts of crap these days (and the > privacy implications that were raised in this thread), might be worth > revisiting the defaults for that setting.
Me too. We do get bug reports about this[1], and people in there have made the case that the current approach is broken by design in today's modern world. All other operating systems I'm familiar with get by with a simple combobox populated with apps, so we probably can too. I'm familiar with the code and can have a go at doing this sometime soon. Nate [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100016
