From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050322 Firefox/1.0.2 Red Hat/1.0.2-1.4.1 Description of problem: I was surprised that KDE desktop icons bindings are managed by GNOME control-center tool called gnome-default-applications-properties. I wanted the e-mail icon in KDE to run Thunderbird instead of Evolution. It had taken some time before I realised that I should use gnome-default-application-properties! In my opinion this tool should be called desktop-default-application-properties Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): control-center-2.8.0-12, htmlview-3.0.0-8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install KDE 2. Try to run Thunderbird using KDE desktop icon (it is bound to launchmail script from htmlview package) Actual Results: You can discover that KDE desktop icons are managed by GNOME util. That's confusing! Expected Results: More generic names of desktop tools Additional info:
Sorry, we cannot rename upstream projects for non-technical reasons. The reason why our KDE relies on GNOME's preferred applications chooser in order to choose preferred applications is because the KDE project chose not to participate in cross-desktop standards making a generic thing like this possible. Instead KDE is designed very KDE-centric. They can't possibly imagine why you would not want to use Konqueror or Kmail. There is no KDE way of choosing preferred applications from a menu.