[Bug 52670] Re: Kubuntu setting default components don't affect gnome/gtk apps

[Joseph Garvin]

I think we are overcomplicating this. Do all gnome apps only look at
/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser? I find it hard to believe that Gnome
has no way of setting a per-user preferred browser. If there is a way to
set it, then kcontrol / guidance (whichever is responsible, I'm unsure)
should simply be patched so that it also changes wherever Gnome apps
look for the user's preferred browser. For example, if KDE apps looked
at ~/.kde/config/mybrowser (just for example, no idea where KDE apps
actually look) and Gnome apps looked at ~/.gnome/config/mybrowser,
kcontrol should simply be patched to change both.

It is possible that the user may have both KDE and Gnome installed, and
prefer to use Konqueror when in KDE, and say, Epiphany whilst in Gnome,
in which case it might be good to look to see if Gnome apps pay
attention to an enivornment variable like $BROWSER that could be set.

Ideally maybe freedesktop.org will maybe have a solution someday, but
the above seems good enough for now.

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Kubuntu setting default components don't affect gnome/gtk apps
https://launchpad.net/bugs/52670