Cannot set default email client in Digikam running Windows 10

[Melissa Mendelsohn]

Hi Gilles,

I am thrilled/impressed you all are trying to perfect this Application for Windows 10 users…. Thank you!!!!
Sorry to ay it still doesn’t work on my computer… :-(
Attached is a screenshot… Thunderbird did not open at all this time…




> On Nov 7, 2017, at 2:11 PM, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Melissa,
> 
> I more and less one hour, the windows 64 bits pre-version 5.8.0 will be uploaded in https://files.kde.org/digikam/ <https://files.kde.org/digikam/>
> 
> Please take a look and give us a feedback
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> 2017-11-06 20:54 GMT+01:00 Melissa Mendelsohn <jewishgenealogysurnameproject at gmail.com <mailto:jewishgenealogysurnameproject at gmail.com>>:
> Wonderful news!!!  Thank you and I await the next version!
> 
> 
>> On Nov 6, 2017, at 2:47 PM, Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com <mailto:metzpinguin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Currently I am working on this bug. It should be fixed in digiKam-5.8.0. It is 
>> already tested here with Windows7, not yet tested with Windows10.
>> 
>> Maik
>> 
>> Am Montag, 6. November 2017, 20:36:51 CET schrieb Martin Burnicki:
>>> Melissa Mendelsohn wrote:
>>>> Just to try, I installed the 32bit version. It connects to my
>>>> Thunderbird now.. but I get a message :Windows cannot find “compose”.
>>>> Any chance of a fix?
>>> 
>>> According to section "Compose new mail with command line" on this page
>>> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments_(Thunderbird) <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments_(Thunderbird)>
>>> 
>>> it may be tricky to run thunderbird correctly from within a different
>>> application, and it may differ in details depending on the TB version,
>>> and the target OS, e.g. Windows vs. Linux.
>>> 
>>> Anyway, -compose which is the command to let TB open a message compose
>>> window seems to be mis-interpreted as a filename in the Windows version
>>> of DK. So for me this sounds like a bug in DK, where eventually the TB
>>> command line is not escaped correctly.
>>> 
>>> Does the name of the file or path to the file you are going to send
>>> contain spaces?
>>> 
>>> Martin
> 
> Melissa Mendelsohn
> orchardroadcomputers at gmail.com <mailto:orchardroadcomputers at gmail.com>
> www.orchardroadcomputers.com <http://www.orchardroadcomputers.com/>
> 802-825-5444
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Melissa Mendelsohn
orchardroadcomputers at gmail.com
www.orchardroadcomputers.com
802-825-5444




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