Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 17:53:29 +0100 From: Anselm Strauss <amsibamsi@gmail.com> To: Josh Paetzel <jpaetzel@freebsd.org> Cc: Elias Chrysoheris <eliaschr@ath.forthnet.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE firefox integration Message-ID: <201003071753.29305.amsibamsi@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201003070852.35803.jpaetzel@freebsd.org> References: <201003071456.15638.amsibamsi@gmail.com> <201003071613.53869.eliaschr@ath.forthnet.gr> <201003070852.35803.jpaetzel@freebsd.org>
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On Sunday 07 March 2010 15:52:30 Josh Paetzel wrote: > On Sunday 07 March 2010 08:13:53 Elias Chrysoheris wrote: > > On Sunday 07 of March 2010 15:56:15 Anselm Strauss wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I noticed that in PC-BSD 8 firefox is nicely integrated into KDE. > > > Anybody knows how to achieve this on FreeBSD 8? > > > > > > Anselm > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > > > > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > I believe you mean that you need KDE to open Firefox whenever you click > > on a link. That's easy. From your KDE menu, open "System Settings" (in > > the first tab, "favorites") > > Then select "Default Applications". Then, in the left list of the > > applications, choose "Web browser", and at the right part of the screen > > choose the radio button "in the following browser" and in the edit box > > enter the "/usr/local/bin/firefox3". Then apply the new settings. > > > > Elias > > Another trick that PC-BSD uses....which might be more of what you are > asking about is the installation of a port called > x11-themes/gtk-qt4-engine This port allows gtk applications to be > displayed using qt, which helps integrate the look of things like FF, > Thunderbird, OOo with KDE. I already installed the gtk-qt4-engine, but it has some serious bugs. Scroll bars are not painted, tab borders are painted at the wrong position, etc. Could this be because I modified some of KDEs appearance options? Are there any other integration tweaks, like icons, keyboard shortcuts, file chooser dialog, ... ? Thanks, Anselm
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