On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 13:44 +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> I wonder if there's a way to define different Execs for clicking on
> the icon and handling mailto.
The desktop file format specification implies you can just add an extra
context entry. For reference, the full specification is here:
https:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2016, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Nov 2016, Keith Amidon wrote:
>> However, this did not seem to work when I tried it out in my gnome
>> session. I'm pretty sure creating two separate desktop files
>> (duplicating some of the fields) would work.
>
> I see three options here:
>
On Mon, 21 Nov 2016, Keith Amidon wrote:
> However, this did not seem to work when I tried it out in my gnome
> session. I'm pretty sure creating two separate desktop files
> (duplicating some of the fields) would work.
I see three options here:
1) Just always go to message composition directly
On Mon, Nov 21 2016, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 1:34 PM, David Bremner wrote:
>> Jani Nikula writes:
>>
>>> -Exec=emacs -f notmuch
>>> +GenericName=Email Client
>>> +Comment=Emacs based email client
>>> +Exec=notmuch-emacs-mua %u
>>
>> This seems like a fairly substantial chan
On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 1:34 PM, David Bremner wrote:
> Jani Nikula writes:
>
>> -Exec=emacs -f notmuch
>> +GenericName=Email Client
>> +Comment=Emacs based email client
>> +Exec=notmuch-emacs-mua %u
>
> This seems like a fairly substantial change in functionality. Previously
> people could click
Jani Nikula writes:
> -Exec=emacs -f notmuch
> +GenericName=Email Client
> +Comment=Emacs based email client
> +Exec=notmuch-emacs-mua %u
This seems like a fairly substantial change in functionality. Previously
people could click on the icon fire up a mail reader; now they get a
mail composition
With the mailto: handling in notmuch-emacs-mua, we can update the
desktop file to advertize we can be set as the default application to
handle email. While at it, add GenericName and Comment to be more
informative.
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emacs/notmuch-emacs-mua.desktop | 5 -
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 d
