Bugzilla – Bug 494376
“Send link...” in Firefox opens empty KMail composer window
Last modified: 2009-08-30 20:58:10 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3) Gecko/20090311 SUSE/3.1b3-10.2 Firefox/3.1b3 but Mail Composer is activated properly. LSB Version: core-2.0-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-2.0-x86_64:core-3.2-x86_64:desktop-3.2-amd64:desktop-3.2-noarch:graphics-2.0-amd64:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.2-amd64:graphics-3.2-noarch Distributor ID: SUSE LINUX Description: openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) Release: 11.1 Codename: n/a Qt: 4.5.0 KDE: 4.2.69 (KDE 4.2.69 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090406)) "release 1.3" KMail: 1.11.90 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Right clik at a page and select "Send Link..." 2. 3. Expected Results: new mail with link and Window Title
i use evolution as my email client, when i click "send link", then system will compose a email with windows title as email title and link as mail's body
I _think_ that's an issue with your handler aka kmail.
'kmail mailto:?body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opensuse.org%2Fcs%2F&subject=openSUSE.org' for some reason doesn't work, e.g. kde-open works (you can use kde-open as a workaround here then). Firefox should offer a suitable KMail default there, as soon as we figure out what it is.
KMail bug, according to Thomas McGuire, to be fixed soon.
*** Bug 433119 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fix added, now kmail <mailto_url>' should work. I'll take the liberty of reassigning this one back to ask for considering setting up Firefox so that it by default offers KMail as an option in the combobox instead of users having to hunt for the kmail binary in the file dialog (which, quite frankly, was a pretty bad user experience even for me).
The non-existing "app selector" is really a pain. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397700 You probably think about setting the gconf key from kmail for the user profile which would help a lot and even isn't too hacky I _think_? (calling gconftool-2) -> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto It's a hack but it's easy and would help a lot. We won't get an app selector in FF in short time and gconf is used as default option and an exception for KDE environments is unlikely to happen.
Created attachment 310689 [details] firefox mailto settings I'm talking about this. It should offer 'Use KMail' as well there, and preferably as the default when running in KDE instead of the for KDE inappropriate Evolution default.
Let me explain what these settings are about: "Use evolution (default)" - is the setting which comes from gconf's mailto handler The mentioned Yahoo and GMail options are "webhandlers" which are preconfigured. We could add something here but it's only web-based. So it's not easily possible to add something here without a very hacky approach.
*** Bug 527417 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Original problem already fixed, the part about defaults will be fixed as a part of bug #170055. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 170055 ***