Hi to all.

I'd like to set Firefox and Thunderbird as default applications, respectively in place of Konqueror and Kmail.

How to do that?
Thanks.
Regards

Open "System settings", and click "Default applications".

Thanks for your reply.
However, despite I've been changing kmail with thunderbird, kmail is still opened when right clicking on a file and pressing Action -> Send

Should I restart the session for the changes to be effective?
Regards.

If you are referring to the menu action "Send as Email Attachment" then this is hardcoded to KMail - as KMail itself provides this. To alter it, you need to create a custom service menus. I'm not sure how easy it will be to override / alter the existing service menus.

You can probably find it at /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/kmail_addattachmentservicemenu.desktop

If you copy it to ~/.kde4/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/ (creating folders if needed, and changing ~/.kde4 for ~/.kde if needed) then edit it you should get the result you want.

I see that it is hard coded. In fact, uninstalling KMail it also removed the "Send to" function
Isn't it frustrating?

Ho to propose to separate the SendTO from KMail?

As I mentioned, you need to copy it to the appropriate directory, then modify it to use Thunderbird (the arguments may differ however).

Finally, you may need to run "kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental" to ensure it is picked up.

Thanks.

I was missing the followind command

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kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(31405) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in "sendto.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(31405) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Actions in "sendto.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(31405) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/gmerlin-plugincfg.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(31405) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/im-switch.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(31405) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/kde4/bluedevil-network-panu.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
kbuildsycoca4(31405) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry Categories in "/usr/share/applications/kde4/bluedevil-network-dun.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).


As you can see, there are errors.

Those "errors" are more like insignificant warnings - and should not be relevant here. Does your action appear after running that command?

Yes, it works.
Thanks for your precious help!