Closed Bug 242255 Opened 21 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Thunderbird needs to register as default handler of mailto protocols

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Preferences
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 252056
Milestone:
Thunderbird0.8

People

(Reporter: bugs, Assigned: bryner)

References

Details

Thunderbird needs to register itself as the default handler of the mailto protocol on GNOME. Firefox will do this by implementing a GNOME version of nsIShellService - nsGNOMEShellService. Thunderbird should do something similar. Ideally the windows registration code tbird already uses would be massaged into a nsWindowsShellService, ditto for nsMacShellService. This is a high visibility issue presently because people are having to manually set default browser/mail handlers on linux - even though scripts make this a little easier, it should be as automatic as it is on Windows. The preferred back end for this bryner tells me is gconf.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird0.7
Tempted to DUP this to Bug #202497, except that one is WinXP, and this one is *nix, and the fixes will be somewhat different.
Target Milestone: Thunderbird0.7 → Thunderbird0.8
Brian is working on this
Assignee: mscott → bryner
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 252056 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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