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 We could argue that its not our fault that other DE's are so hopelessly outdated but that wouldn't gain us anything.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 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
