I use Sylpheed for my email client. Among other slick things I can drag a message off of my mail window and set it on my desktop for future reference. (In this way I can use emails as a kind of a "sticky note".)
However, when I double-click on the message that I have put onto my desktop it loads and opens up in kmail.
Why?
On Monday 01 January 2007 18:17, Frank Cox wrote:
I use Sylpheed for my email client. Among other slick things I can drag a message off of my mail window and set it on my desktop for future reference. (In this way I can use emails as a kind of a "sticky note".)
However, when I double-click on the message that I have put onto my desktop it loads and opens up in kmail.
Why?
Because kmail is the default email application in kde. You can change it in Control Center > KDE Components > Component Chooser.
Anne
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:39:59 +0000 Anne Wilson cannewilson@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Because kmail is the default email application in kde. You can change it in Control Center > KDE Components > Component Chooser.
But but but.... my desktop is Gnome.
On Monday 01 January 2007 18:42, Frank Cox wrote:
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:39:59 +0000
Anne Wilson cannewilson@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Because kmail is the default email application in kde. You can change it in Control Center > KDE Components > Component Chooser.
But but but.... my desktop is Gnome.
That *is* strange, then. I would have thought Gnome had a similar configuration tool that you can check?
Anne
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:02:35 +0000 Chris Jones jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
and gnome has its own similar thing I believe. Cannot tell you where as I don't run gnome myself but from memory I think it is called 'Preferred Applications'
Indeed. And Sylpheed is set as the "Mail Reader" under Preferred Applications.
On Monday 01 January 2007 19:07, Frank Cox wrote:
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:02:35 +0000
Chris Jones jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
and gnome has its own similar thing I believe. Cannot tell you where as I don't run gnome myself but from memory I think it is called 'Preferred Applications'
Indeed. And Sylpheed is set as the "Mail Reader" under Preferred Applications.
In that case I would suspect a file association problem. Do you know the file type as it appears when on your desktop? And have you found where Gnome defines associations?
Just thought, you understand. :-)
Anne
Indeed. And Sylpheed is set as the "Mail Reader" under Preferred Applications.
Hmmm. Under KDE I would then look to see what application is associated with the email when it is stored as a file on your desktop (whats the file extension by the way ?) by either right clicking on it and checking its properties, or just 'Control Centre' -> KDE components -> File associations.
Don't know how to do this in gnome though...
Chris
On Monday 01 January 2007 19:07, Frank Cox wrote:
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:02:35 +0000
Chris Jones jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
and gnome has its own similar thing I believe. Cannot tell you where as I don't run gnome myself but from memory I think it is called 'Preferred Applications'
Indeed. And Sylpheed is set as the "Mail Reader" under Preferred Applications.
BTW, rather than do it your way, in KMail I do File > Save As which saves it as a text file. As always, linux is about choice :-)
Anne
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:16:28 +0000 Chris Jones jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk wrote:
Under KDE I would then look to see what application is associated with the email when it is stored as a file on your desktop (whats the file extension by the way ?) by either right clicking on it and checking its properties,
Bingo! I just found it, thanks to your help.
By right-clicking on the file and selecting properties, one of the tabs is "Open With" and the selections are Kmail, "Nedit" and "Text Editor". I selected Nedit and it's working just the way that I want it to.
The file extension is .eml, and the "Type" is "email message", mime type message/rfc822
Thanks!
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