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. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
