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Bug 667780 - nautilus-sendto does not respect default email client
nautilus-sendto does not respect default email client
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus-sendto
Classification: Applications
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: nautilus-sendto-maint
nautilus-sendto-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-01-12 15:01 UTC by Martin Jürgens
Modified: 2012-03-14 15:31 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Martin Jürgens 2012-01-12 15:01:16 UTC 
Description of problem:
nautilus-sendto does not respect default email client

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nautilus-sendto-3.0.1-1.fc16.x86_64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install thunderbird
2. set thunderbird to default mail client in gnome 3
3. try to send a file by mail by right click -> send to

Actual results:
evolution starts

Expected results:
thunderbird starts

Additional info:
Comment 1 André Klapper 2012-01-12 21:45:55 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> 2. set thunderbird to default mail client in gnome 3

Just to be sure, you set this under "System Settings > System > System Info > Default Applications > Mail"? Or how?
Comment 2 Martin Jürgens 2012-01-12 22:07:50 UTC 
yep, thats correct
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2012-01-16 12:31:18 UTC 
True. We still get the default mailer from GConf.
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2012-03-14 15:31:44 UTC 
Fixed in gnome-3-0 and master

commit fb9359354d10d8393affe4181a5773cdc3902d88
Author: Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Date:   Wed Mar 14 16:26:41 2012 +0100

    evolution: Fix getting default mailer for GNOME 3.0
    
    Using the handler for x-scheme-handler/mailto rather than
    reading obsolete info in GConf.
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=667780