Re: make evo & epiphany play nice, but not system wide prefs, and no gnome
On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 09:49, Tony Baldwin <photodharma@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like Evolution and Epiphany to play nice together, like a suite
> (like iceweasel and icedove can), or something, wherein Evolution sends
> links to open in a new tab in Epiphany, and Epiphany uses Evo for mailto:
> links, etc.
> The thing is, I'm not using gnome, and don't want to set Epiphany and Evo as
> my default browser and mail app system-wide, anyway.
> I want to keep Icedove and Iceweasel as defaults.
> Currently, Evo sends links to a new tab in iceweasel, and epiphany hasn't a
> clue what to do with mailto: links.
>
> I can't seem to find anywhere in the configs or preferences for either
> epiphany or evo that I can set them as their default apps for each other,
> and the only information I find googling re: this matter involves using
> gnome and setting said preferences system-wide with gnome-control-center,
> which is not an option, because:
> a) I don't want those as system wide preferences, just within epiphany and
> evo, and
> b) I'm not using gnome (nor kde, xfce, fluxbox, openbox, lxde, icewm, etc.,
> etc., etc. I'm using ion3), and, thus, don't have gnome-control-center
> installed.
>
> any ideas? Is this possible? If it isn't, it should be.
The vast majority of settings for Gnome programs are handled with gconf.
AFAIK it is not possible to install or run most Gnome apps without installing/
running gconf. I run Awesome WM, and as soon as I run a Gnome app,
gconfd-2 launches. I think if you stopped gconfd, the other apps would fail.
Other than installing g-c-c, you could install gconf-editor, which gathers the
gconf folders and xml files into a tree (it is a bit like regedit). Or
your could
sort through the ~/.gconf/ files and dirs and edit the xml manually...
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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