From: user@example.net   
      
   AZ Nomad wrote:   
   > On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:01:13 -0400, Arthur Hagen  wrote:   
   >> AZ Nomad  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.   
      
   If you don't like the way things are done, then tweak the "Special   
   Window Settings" and/or "Special Application Settings".   
      
      
   >> 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?   
   > ...   
      
   But the icon isn't executed by the application but the desktop.   
      
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      //Aho   
      
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