263156 - No way to select mail "helper app" in Firefox if using KDE instead of Gnome

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Trevor Smith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

I use KDE 3.3.0-2.2.2.kde and wanted to use KMail as my application for handling
mailto: tags. There appears to be no way to set this in Firefox
(Edit->Preferences no longer handles this in Firefox). But Firefox ignores my
system default settings in KDE to have KMail as my default mail program and
insists on opening Evolution.

I was required to leave KDE and log into Gnome to set a system wide 'mailto:'
handling request for KMail instead of Evolution.

Firefox should look for KDE's setting of this item, not insist on using Gnome's
settings (since I never use Gnome).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

At present, this is a WONTFIX.  We're not going to implement arbitrary UI for
mailto handling, any sane OS has a service to handle various protocols.  We're
using the GNOME shellservice at present, just like we're moving to GTK
filepickers etc.  This is, of course, because we're a GTK, not a qt, app.

If the qt port spawns a Firefox port for KDE, then someone can write a KDE
shellservice for that port and use the KDE system default.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change