[Digikam-users] Change email handler for sending pictures

[Sveinn í Felli]

Then you should stick to using the package manager. That's 
how it's supposed to work anyway in the 'user friendly' distros.

And the click-on-email thing is also a Windows bug...

Cheers,
Sveinn í Felli

Þann fös 15.jan 2010 13:08, BGP skrifaði:
> The sad thing is that there's a long post on the Ubuntu forums on how to
> install TB3.....in which the posters babel something about tar and all
> sorts of other nonsense which never tells me how to install anything on
> my machine.  I hate Windows....but Linux is doing a good job, all by
> itself, of convincing me it's a pain in the neck.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 10-01-15 03:20 AM, Sveinn í Felli wrote:
>> Þann 01/14/2010 10:58 PM, BGP skrifaði:
>>
>>>
>>>> Which OS ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Ubuntu 9.10
>>>
>>>> Tbird 3 is full of bugs on OpenSuse 11.2, but works like a
>>>> charm on LinuxMint.
>>>>
>>>> Does clicking on links in emails open your web-browser ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> No.
>>>
>>>
>> Then you have got a bugged TB3, there is a lot of weird
>> configuration problems due to this (locales, time formats
>> and such got messed). I had figured out that it was mostly
>> associated with KDE4, TB reads Gnome system config much better.
>>
>> First make sure you have a default web-browser.
>>
>> Since you're using a KDE-app under GNOME, you may want to
>> install a package called 'kde-systemsettings' (or something
>> similar, it used to be 'kcontrol'). Then you can (with a
>> GUI) set the default browser, default email program,
>> localisation and other stuff for your KDE-apps. After
>> configuration you can remove this package. And of course
>> this is just a GUI for settings you should be able to do on
>> a command line.
>>
>> You can fix the click-bug by editing 'about.config' in TB3
>> or the prefs.js file. See;
>> <http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/firefox_does_not_launch_when_a_http_link_is_clicked_in_thunderbird>
>>     "The keys to set to true are
>> 'network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http' and
>> 'network.protocol-handler.warn-external.https'"
>>
>> Some have resolved many of these bugs by upgrading their KDE
>> to the latest stable - I suspect there will be a bugfix for
>> TB3 very soon.
>>
>> Hope this helps (even if its a bit OT)...
>>
>> Sveinn í Felli
>>
>>
>>>> Þann 01/14/2010 02:55 PM, Gilles Caulier skrifaði:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Look debug message in console. Look especially the command line used
>>>>> in background to run thunderbird.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there thunderbird bin program is in path ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Gilles Caulier
>>>>>
>>>>> 2010/1/14 BGP<bigskypa at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> I just upgraded to Thunderbird 3 (Shredder).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now I can't send pictures via email out of Digikam anymore.   Digikam
>>>>>> fails to start my email program (Thunderbird).  There are various email
>>>>>> program choices with Thunderbird being one of them....but not
>>>>>> Thunderbird 3.0.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I changed my email preferences in System-Preferences-Preferred
>>>>>> Applications to Custom with the correct command line for TB3 but that
>>>>>> has no effect on Digikam.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm pulling my hair out!
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