[ooo-build] How to set default Internet browser in OOo

[Petr Mladek]

On Thursday 23 July 2009, espinosa_cz wrote:
> Command kde-open www.google.com opens the page in Firefox. I have just
> tested it.
> Same result as with xdg-open.
> DESKTOP_LAUNCH is not defined on my system.

You might add
export DESKTOP_LAUNCH=kde-open into your ~/.bashrc

Also you might report a bug against the mandriva packagers to set it in KDE 
out of box. I am not sure if it is a standard. At least, Michael Meeks tried 
to suggest it as a standard, see 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2004-August/002873.html

It was probably ignored, see
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-September/005767.html

Anyway, we use it in SuSE...

> Neither x-www-browser link in /usr/bin as Loiseleur Michel suggested.
> I can give it a try tomorrow.
>
> I have to confirm it also happens with Mandriva OOo 3.0.1 build so it is
> not go-oo or 3.1 specific.

Yes, we do not have any Go-oo-build specific patches in this area right now.

> There is even more annoyance with that:
> - it always opens a new Konqueror window
> - it resets some setting  in Konqueror. It resets them permanently. I
> always hide a bookmark toolbar in Konqueror but after is Konqueror open
> through OOo it is back and stays until I manually hide it again. Simple
> Konqueror restart does not help.

It is probably a bug in konqueror.

Best Regards,
Petr