The Export "Email Images" option - what about adding mutt?

[Stuart T Rogers]

You dont say what version of digikam this relates to. My understanding 
of V5 is that it uses the mailto protocol which should open the system 
default application for that process. What happens with other apps which 
use mailto?

Stuart

On 08/09/16 09:50, Chris Green wrote:
> maderios <maderios at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 09/07/2016 08:16 PM, Chris Green wrote:
>>
>>> That doesn't work too well on anything but a KDE system because
>>> "default" is the KDE desktop's idea of default.  I'm running Digikam
>>> on xubuntu and my default mail program *is* mutt but it's not picked
>>> up by Digikam.
>>
>> 'galternatives' package allows you to set default programs, e.g browser,
>> mail client,...
>>
>> http://www.debianadmin.com/galternatives-graphical-setup-tool-for-alternatives-configuration-in-ubuntu.html
>
> As I keep saying mutt is *already* my default EMail program, I don't
> think galternatives will change this.  I need to set the default in
> the KDE configuration somehow.
>
> ... and anyway I don't think galternatives does what one wants anyway,
> it's a configuration gui for the 'alternatives' system which allows one
> (for example) to make 'vi' load one's favourite vi clone out of the
> many available.  It doesn't set the default program for a particular
> task.
>

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