Bug#645556: gnome-shell: Icedove cannot be chosen as the default mail application

[Michael Biebl]

reassign 645556 icedove
severity 645556 important
tags 645556 + patch
retitle 645556 icedove.desktop file is missing mailto mimetype
thanks

Am 17.10.2011 00:40, schrieb Vincent Danjean:
> Package: gnome-shell
> Version: 3.0.2-5
> Severity: normal
> 
>   I cannot choose icedove as my default email and calendar application (I'm
> using iceowl extension with icedove).
>   The list of default mail applications in gnome-shell on my laptop is:
> Evolution, KMailService, mutt (and only Evolution for calendar)
> 
>   How is chosen/built this list ? How can I put a personnal application here ?
> 
>   Regards,
>     Vincent
> 

This is a icedove bug.

/usr/share/applications/icedove.desktop needs to extend Mimetype to

MimeType=message/rfc822;x-scheme-handler/mailto;

If you do that manually, you need to run (as root) update-desktop-database

icedove should then show up


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