On 11/22/2010 08:14 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 11/20/2010 06:35 AM, Michael Lueck wrote: >> I also took the time to report this in Bugzilla: >> >> "Incorrect default switches to handle mailto: links / new message window >> will not open" >> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613724 >> > > Clearly your: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613724#c7 > response indicates that you still seem to think that this is a SeaMonkey > issue rather than an issue with properly configuring your GNOME desktop. > So I'll repeat: this is *not* a SeaMonkey issue, but rather an desktop > configuration issue. (PEBKAC) > > As you've already discovered, properly setting your desktop preferred > applications settings (Ubuntu: System|Preferences|Preferred > Applications|Mail Reader|Custom/whatever) to a path/system setting for > SeaMonkey works. This demonstrates that the issue is with your desktop > settings and *not* SeaMonkey. > > Let me give you a few examples/whatif's: > > 1. I run SM from a /home folder on several machines (Ubuntu 8.04, 10.04, > 10.10). Using your "example" won't work for me. Instead I need to add > the full path to my SM installation folder and use: > /home/<username>/<seamonkeyfoldername>/seamonkey -compose > > On others I run SeaMonkey2 from a ppa provided by Joe Lesko [1] and > simply use System|Preferences|Preferred Applications|Mail > Reader|SeaMonkey 2.0|seamonkey2 -mail > > 2. What if your preferred email application were something other than > SeaMonkey? You'd set your email preferences as above only use the path > to that particular email client. > > Point being is that your issue has *nothing* to do with a bug in > SeaMonkey, but instead is due to your failure to grasp the fact that you > lack the understanding necessary to set your desktop settings to use > whatever email client that you wish. > > [1] Using Ubuntuzilla is, IMO, just plain silly. Ubuntuzilla is nothing > more than a set of scripts that install Mozilla products in system > directories. You'd be *much* better off (again IMO) installing SeaMonkey: > > 1. Directly into a home folder (/home/seamonkey) and running it from > there. Or: > 2. If you wish to use a system SeaMonkey, add Joe Lesko's repository to > your /etc/apt/sources.list file - or add: > https://launchpad.net/~seamonkey2/+archive/seamonkey2 > via > $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:seamonkey2/seamonkey2 > and then install seamonkey2 > > I'd recommend that you just install via your distro repository were it > not for the fact that the Ubuntu SeaMonkey maintainers can't seem to get > their act together and still haven't backported the lucid fixes yet: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/seamonkey/+bug/575160 > [seamonkey 2.0 crashes with 'RenderBadPicture' diagnostics] > > Now *please* go and close out > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613724 > If you need further help understanding why please do not hesitate to ask > in this thread & I'll be more than happy to provide additional > info/instructions. > >
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