Question about Preferred Applications
Bryn M. Reeves
bmr at redhat.com
Mon Aug 20 10:00:27 UTC 2012
On 08/19/2012 08:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her
> primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on
> mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT,
> there's no obvious way to do it. Does anybody out there know how that
> could be automated? (My sister isn't technically oriented; something
> that takes several steps every time probably won't work. However, I can
> either set it up for her or talk her through doing it, as long as the
> end result is easy for her to use.)
>
You can create a new menu item for your browser (either manually or
using alacarte) that handles the correct mime types for mail and adds
the correct gmail URL to the command. I don't know how gmail's URL
schemes work but you may need a wrapper script to munge it somehow (it
looks like the requested URL is passed in as %u in the desktop files).
Put it in '.local/share/applications' for a single user or
'/usr/share/applications' to make it available to all users.
Will probably take some fiddling to get it working right but I use this
to run gnome-terminals with specific command line options.
You probably want at least these two:
MimeType=message/rfc822;x-scheme-handler/mailto;
Categories=Network;Email;
This is the .desktop I use for the terminal: http://fpaste.org/OIBt/
Regards,
Bryn.
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