Xdg-utils

Comment 39 for bug 515386

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#39

It doesn't work with Precise Beta 2 either. I'm pretty sure this isn't just an issue with Thunderbird 3, but 3+. I think Precise has 11.

Sincerely,
kroq-gar78
On Apr 7, 2012 6:25 PM, Rüdiger Kupper <<email address hidden>> wrote:

Confirm it does NOT work with Thunderbird 11.0.1 (Oneiric). Mail window

opens, but has NO attachments,

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Title:

No attachment when thunderbird 3 is set as default client.

Status in Simple Scan:

Invalid

Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News:

Confirmed

Status in Xdg-utils:

Fix Released

Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu:

Triaged

Status in “xdg-utils” package in Ubuntu:

Fix Released

Bug description:

Currently, when thunderbird is set as the default email client, when

simple-scan tries to open a new message using mailto: , a new message

window is opened for thunderbird, but there are no attachment.

This is probably due to Thunderbird who does not support attachment

with mailto because it is considered unsecure, but still, this makes

user experience very poor, as the user is left thinking "ok a new

window opened, therefore the attachment must be somewhere..". And

thunderbird is pretty popular.

Fortunately this might be easy to "workaround". Picasa already did it

using xdg-email script that I attached since its code show exactly

what's needed. the run_thunderbird() function is the more important

part in the file.

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