Evolution email links will not open firefox in fedora 12 (KDE)

[vk4tux]

Have been trying to resolve this problem for hours using;

gconf-editor to set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers /http & https
to command: firefox %s

gnome-control-center to set;
preferred applications>Internet>Web browser to firefox %s

However on-click email link I get;

¨Could not open the link.¨
¨Operation not supported¨

I am at a loss to get this working. I used thunderbird before with no issues,
but needed a microsoft-exchange email server for my work account,
supported by evolution.

Kernel Info;

2.6.31.12-174.2.3.fc12.i686.PAE

KDE: 3.5.10-21.fc12 Fedora

Any help appreciated.

vk4tux

[ozjd]

KDE has a default applications setting under the Settings. But I'm not sure if Evolution will use it as it isn't a KDE package.

Just noticed you have KDE 3.5, I'm guessing it has a similar setting.

[vk4tux]

Yes well, have gone through KDE system settings>Advanced>File Associations>text

html and htmlh settings set to firefox.

General>Default Applications set to firefox and evolution for browser and mail settings
respectively.

This is to no avail, the html links in email do nothing, but bring up the error message as per
my last post.

Thanks for the response and I welcome any that can help please?

vk4tux

[deesto]

I'm now seeing this same problem in Fedora 12, 64-bit, KDE 4.3, Evolution 2.28.2. Setting file/program associations doesn't help.

[thejpn]

Links start to work when you install gvfs.

These might also help:

gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command -t string 'firefox %s' 
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command -t string 'firefox %s'

[deesto]

Thanks thejpn. Installing gvfs seems to work for me.