Evolution (again)

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Mar 16 20:57:56 UTC 2008


On Sunday 16 March 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 01:14 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 16 March 2008, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> >On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 23:23 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> Greetings all;
>> >>
>> >> How do I go about making FF3b4 use kmail for its default email agent
>> >> when the link clicked on is of the form "mailto: name at FQDN"?
>> >>
>> >> I did have it using kmail (I use only kde), but some update seems to
>> >> have undone me and I can't find any mention of Evolution in the control
>> >> center settings, nor in FF's about:config.  I can't just remove
>> >> evolution as it takes aabout 500 megs worth of other stuff I do use
>> >> with it & that sucks a very high vacuum IMO.
>> >>
>> >> I've been looking for it for about 2 hours now.  Somebody please throw
>> >> me a lifesaver...
>> >
>> >Gnome Control Center->Preferred Applications->Mail Reader. Note that it
>> >has nothing to do with FF as such; it's a desktop setting.
>> >
>> >poc
>>
>> As I said, I'm running kde, and there is no such thing in its control
>> center. In "control center->kde components->Email client" screen, the use
>> kmail button is checked.  For FF3b4, no effect.
>
>I also use KDE. Run gnome-control-center from the command line.

I didn't even know it existed, but its there.  ??Why does it need 2+ feet of 
vertical screen space, that seems excessive?

Thanks.

>
>poc



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