On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 11:19:31 -0600 Bill Barry <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:48 AM, John Jason Jordan ><[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 21:17:53 -0800 >> Bruce Kilpatrick <[email protected]> dijo: >> >> >In Firefox, Edit->Preferences->Applications->mailto >> >> That's what I tried to do, but it's broken. >> >> It is set to Evolution (default). Clicking on the drop-down I can >> select "Other," which opens up a file browser window. I can go to >> ~/.local/share/applications and select claws-mail.desktop or >> to /usr/share/applications and select claws-mail.desktop, but neither >> one will appear in place of Evolution. >Usually an application drop-down like is expecting you to enter the >path to the application binary. I suspect >/usr/share/applications/claws-mail.desktop is not the binary for >claws-mail. You can find the correct path using whereis. >whereis claws-mail (if that is the correct name of the binary?) The whereis command says it is /usr/bin/claws-mail. Actually I had already found it there by browsing previously, but the whereis command confirmed that the binary is actually there and not duplicated someplace else. There are also two .desktop files, one in /usr/share/applications and the other in ~/.local/share/applications, but Firefox won't take them either. I can launch Claws Mail from the command line with "claws-mail." When I go into Edit > Preferences > Applications > mailto the dropdown is set to "Evolution (default)." There are two additional options on the dropdown: "Use other" and "Always ask." The "Always ask" choice makes it ask, but the only option when it asks is Evolution, Yahoo mail or Gmail. The "Use other" option opens a browser window. I can browse to /usr/bin/claws-mail, select it, and click on the Open button in the browser window, but the dropdown just stays on "Use other." When I close the window and reopen it, it has reverted to "Evolution (default)." The dropdown has no place to type the name or location of the binary. The problem lies in one of three places: the upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 16 the upgrade from Firefox 3.something on Fc14 to Firefox 8.0 the change from Gnome to Xfce desktop. The change from Gnome to Xfce was added to the list by this morning's coffee. However, it will take additional coffee to figure out how Xfce may have affected things. I can say that in the Applications menu "Preferred Applications" GUI "mail" is set to Claws Mail, as it has always been. But I think the Preferred Applications GUI relates to Gnome, which is still installed. It still may be an Xfce problem. My current workaround is to copy the mail address in the web page, restore Claws Mail to the desktop (it is almost always running), open a Compose window, and paste in the address. Previously this was always automatic just by clicking on the address in the web page. I am still poking at the problem. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
