Firefox and ktorrent

Paul Lemmons paul at lemmons.name
Fri May 23 22:16:16 UTC 2008


-------- Original Message  --------
Subject: Re:Firefox and ktorrent
From: "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans at gmail.com>
To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Date: 05/23/2008 02:48 PM
> Paul Lemmons said the following at 05/23/2008 12:21 PM :
>
>   
>> I attacked the problem from a different angle. I asked "Why is the 
>> application window empty". I found a link that suggested that I "apt-get 
>> install firefox-gnome-support".  That fixed both the problem of the 
>> empty applications and as a happy side effect, the ability to click on a 
>> link and have it automatically open ktorrent.
>>
>>     
>
> So does adding that package mean that you can now augment/change the
> mapping between file types and applications?
>
> I've been looking for something to do that for ages. I can't understand why
> plain vanilla FF doesn't seem to allow one a way to add/change that mapping
> (or indeed, why it just doesn't use the mapping defined by the OS).
>
>   Doc
>
>   
It appears to, though I did not need to do so to get past my problem.

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