Ubuntu Firefox + Thunderbird integration

Just switched to my Kubuntu 7.10 laptop for mobile working.. found that KDE has a bug which means it does not pass on the mailto: clicks via the Default Applications option in System Settings.

Workaround is to create a Firefox user.js with this code in it:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", "true");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "/usr/bin/thunderbird");

This gets it working, although I wish KDE functionality would keep working between releases!

KDE playground

I'm a KDE user, on Kubuntu. but it's more and more evident that it will fade away eventually because its often just a testing platform for the developers. Consequently the UI isn't great, its inconsistent, confusing, and the Windows of the GNU-Linux desktop space. Take for example the default settings of KWrite and Krita to dump out backup files of every file edited with the ~suffix. How many users are going to understand that? and Krita doesn't even have away to disable it! Also the names are silly, does a user really want to have to load KWrite to type? or would they rather just load "Notes" like they can on mobiles and tablets like Nokia 770 etc.

I've used Gnome on the other hand, and to me KDE is going to be more of a testing-space, which completes with the prime desktop, Gnome. Competition is always very useful, it's just a shame KDE isn't a polished desktop like Gnome has become!