On Friday 09 Nov 2012 00:14:37 you wrote:
> first of all kudos to the developers, I've been running trinity since last week on 
> one of my machines and it has been a pleasant experience!
> 
> I'm running TDE on an Ubuntu Precise installation, I removed all kde4 packages before installing TDE
> now I'm having problems making a qt4 application (mendeley pdf organizer) to open folders in konqueror,
> it opens them in firefox instead. I tried to open folders with xdg-open and it also that uses firefox.
> I've tried several things, issuing the following as suggested in the Arch Wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-open
> $  xdg-mime default kfmclient.desktop inode/directory 
> 
> didn't work
> 
> I tried setting kfmclient as the application for opening inode/directory in /usr/share/applications/default.list
> as well as in .local/share/applications/default.list and it didn't work. Eventually I tried installing nautilus,
> and as I suspected it took possession of xdg, and xdg-open directoryname now uses nautilus, but that's not
> really what I wanted, I would like that xdg-open uses konqueror

today I uninstalled nautilus and xdg-open started automagically using konqueror for opening directories,
so somehow I managed to solve my problem. 

Sam