The workaround in xdg-email does not work in Ubuntu 13.04 for Thunderbird. The workaround includes looking up and parsing thunderbird.desktop to finally call thunderbird. Maybe there could be an easier solution?
xdg-email currently ends up with calling gvfs-open "mailto:?attach=..."; what does not work with thunderbird due to some strange security policies. This should be fixed within xdg-email in my opinion. Can somebody please reopen https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13435 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xdg-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/515386 Title: No attachment when Thunderbird is set as default client. Status in Simple Scan: Invalid Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Invalid Status in Xdg-utils: New 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/simple-scan/+bug/515386/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
