On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:32:21 -0800 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. I just tried to set my "mailto:"; default in Firefox 8 on Fedora 16, and it worked just fine. I went to Preferences and clicked on the Applications icon. Selected "mailto" in the list, and used the drop-down menu to select "Use other..." (the second-to-last selection in the list). At that point, I was given a file selector, and I selected /usr/bin/claws-mail. I tested it, and it did indeed give me claws-mail, instead of the default (which is KMailService). Firefox was even nice enough to just give me a Compose window from an already-running instance of Claws-Mail, rather than starting up another copy. You have to tell it the name of the actual executable. The .desktop file(s), if any, won't work. As far as I know, those are just for using the mouse to start things from an icon on the desktop. Hope this helps. --Dale -- Welcome to the Philosopher's Diner, where all meals are ordered a la Descartes! _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
