On Sun, 7 Jan 2007 15:52:14 +0100 Gabriele Stilli wrote: > For Galeon, I solved this installing gnome-control-center, running > gnome-default-applications-properties and choosing from the drop-downs > "Galeon" as the default application and "Mutt" as the mailclient. > Trying to set the relevant keys manually via gconftool-2 apparently > did not help (maybe I'm not skilled enough for that; any hint? :) ).
Even if there is this workaround (which I haven't yet tried out),
I still think that Galeon should use gconf settings in order to
determine which mail user agent should be invoked when the user follows
a mailto: link.
I issued the following command:
$ gconftool-2 --type=string \
--set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/command \
'sylpheed --compose %s'
and now it seems that gconf is knows about my mail user agent of choice:
$ gconftool-2 --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/command
sylpheed --compose %s
Nonetheless, Galeon seems to ignore this setting entirely.
When I follow a mailto: link in Galeon, nothing happens.
>
> Don't know for other browsers, I guess it could be done similarly by
> fiddling with the options.
Epiphany is happy to invoke Sylpheed, as soon as I follow a
mailto: link.
Hence, it seems that Galeon is at fault here.
>
> The only downside of this is the number of dependencies brought in by
> gnome-control-center (personally I don't use Gnome and it's a pity to
> have to install so many otherwise useless packages just to setup that
> single option).
It's a significant downside, IMHO: I don't want to bloat my system just
for the mailto: link feature!
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