Ubuntu
firefox package

kubuntu/firefox should per default open mailto: with kmail

Bug #66990 reported by Christian González on 2006-10-19

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

it's a wish, not a bug, I would say.

is it possible to make a KDE-integration package for firefox like there is for Gnome; let's name it "firefox-kde-support".

I know there has to be much more in it but a good start would be the file

"/usr/share/firefox/defaults/pref/kde-integration.js" or similar which contains just one line:
pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "kmailservice");

I don't know how this is done in Gnome, but I think it's done a similar way.

Christian

See original description

Christian González (droetker) on 2006-10-19

description:	updated
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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote on 2006-10-19:

Thank you for your bug report. I changed it to a wish list bug. i changed the package as this is kubuntu related not ubuntu. I would agree with you but firefox is included in ubuntu-desktop package as kubuntu-desktop package does not include firefox by default. the mozilla-firefox-gnome-support is included in ubuntu-desktop. I'm guessing kubuntu-desktop doesnt include firefox because its a GTK app but that may not be why.

Changed in kubuntu-meta:
status:	Unconfirmed → Confirmed

Christian González (droetker) on 2006-10-19

description:

updated

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Christian González (droetker) wrote on 2006-10-19:

you answered too quickly ;-) - I already edited the report a little.
I never guessed that somebody would answer within a few minutes - I'm deeply impressed...
But thanks for the answer - you're right.

It's ok when Konqueror is the standard browser in Kubuntu, and It's no good idea to install 57 different browsers by default ;-) - but there SHOULD be the possibility to use firefox with KDE easily - and this little change would make the "about:config - new, string..."-method obsolete.

Maybe make this package a suggestion of the firefox deb?

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Frode M. Døving (frode) wrote on 2006-10-19:

I think it's a good idea.
There are also some good ideas at http://konquefox.free.fr/

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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2007-06-12:

this is a dupe but i cant see the original bug at the moment.

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Niels Egberts (nielsegberts) wrote on 2009-01-18:

I think this should be implented as soon as possible. I can't find the original bug, does someone has it?

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Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote on 2009-01-19:

This needs to be addressed in Firefox really. Either it should handle mimetypes properly as per XDG spec out of the box or at least use xdg-email to invoke $emailclient.

IIRC latter is the only sensible possibility as the mimetype handling requires a lot of GNOME libraries. So I suppose firefox should invoke xdg-email unless GNOME integration is available.

Moving bug to firefox-3.0 source package.

Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount) on 2012-11-07

affects:

firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) → firefox (Ubuntu)