On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:15:49 -0400, Arthur Hagen <art@broomstick.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 13:13 -0500, AZ Nomad wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:01:13 -0400, Arthur Hagen <art@broomstick.com> wrote:
>> >AZ Nomad <aznomad.3@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:
>> >> Has any progress been made to integrate firefox with KDE?
>> >>
>> >> Two behaviors which I really dislike are:
>> >>
>> >> 1) firefox isn't desktop aware. The firefox launcher tries to reuse
>> >> windows, but if the opened firefox is on another desktop, opening a
>> >> URL causes a desktop switch to where the running firefox window is.
>> >> I don't want to randomly switch desktops when I open a url.
>>
>> >I bet that the way it works is the preferred way for many people, who want
>> >to keep their virtual desktop separate, and not get a notification from
>> >their "games" VD displaying on their "work" VD.
>>
>> If you're on your work VD, and firefox is sitting over on the game VD,
>> opening a URL from your email will flip you over to the game VD. That isn't
>> desirable behavior in my opinion. I want to stay on whatever VD i'm working
>> with.
>>
>> >Doesn't KDE have a setting switch for whether new windows are to open in the
>> >same virtual desktop as the parent (if any), or in the active one?
>> Doesn't matter. Firefox will activate it's current running window and that'll
>> drag the user over to it. I suppose it could be set so there wouldn't be a
>> desktop switch but then you'd be wondering why nothing happens when you try
>> to open a URL.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> >> 2) firefox has drag'n'drop to the desktop, but the created icon, when
>> >> launched don't open anything but a text window with the url inside.
>> >> I have to cut'n'paste that back to the firefox address bar to
>> >> actually open the page.
>>
>> >Seems to me like you have a problem with your file manager's magic parsing.
>> >Check whether KDE or its file manager has its own magic file -- if not, add
>> >an entry to ~/.magic.mime (or globally, to /usr/share/misc/file/magic.mime)
>> >that identifies it, like:
>>
>> You'd expect that an icon create BY an application would be launched
>> properly by that same application. What is the point of firefox creating an
>> icon it won't launch?

>Ah. You're here to bitch, not to get help. Noted.

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