mailto thunderbird gconf problem

[Michaël Van Dorpe]

Binary package hint: f-spot

If Thunderbird is your default mail handler, and you want to send an e-mail from within f-spot, the message gets created, but the pictures do not get attached.

To solve this problem, you can change the gconf value of "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/command" from "/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird "%s"" to simply "thunderbird %s".

However, that is not a good solution either, because as soon as you launch thunderbird again, it will complain about not being the default mailto handler anymore. If you then agree to make Thunderbird the default e-mail handler, the gconf value will be reverted and you won't be able to send e-mails using f-spot anymore...

This boils down to the question of whether f-spot or thunderbird are right about the gconf syntax, and I have no idea about that.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 23 21:44:09 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: f-spot 0.6.1.3-2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=nl_BE.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: f-spot
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, it seems rather a thunderbird issue though there

[komputes (komputes)]

I can confirm this bug in f-spot/thunderbird. As compared to cheese which is able to create a mail with an attachment correctly. Perhaps looking at how cheese does it in karmic (Fixed Bug #399066) will give some insight on how it is done properly.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This was fixed ages ago in Maverick