How well Ubuntu Ibex works on Lenovo T61 laptop?

Thunderbird is a great mail application, but this problem nagged me enough to warrant a post!

I run Kubuntu – KDE based flavor of Ubuntu. Thunderbird is a GNOME application and doesn’t seem to take the default BROWSER values set in KDE control panel or in my BASH profile (BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox). I tried this – http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=20315 – but no luck

Here is one way of fixing it:

1) Install gnome-control-center
sudo apt-get install gnome-control-center
or do it through Adept Manager UI.
this will install a bunch of Gnome libraries, that is okay

2) Once the install is done, launch ‘gnome-control-center‘ and goto Preferred Applications. Select FIREFOX as browser and choose ‘Open in Tab’

Here is a bash script I came up with to create playlists on Sansa music player, on Linux

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