<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#000066"> Donatas G. wrote: <blockquote id="mid_200911250822_19248_dgvirtual_akl_lt" cite="mid:200911250822.19248.dgvirtual@akl.lt" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 2009 m. Lapkritis 24 d., antradienis 16:39:46 Alvin wrote: </pre> <blockquote id="StationeryCiteGenerated_1" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tuesday 24 November 2009 15:29:45 Donatas G. wrote: </pre> <blockquote id="StationeryCiteGenerated_2" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 2009 m. Lapkritis 24 d., antradienis 15:56:02 Alvin wrote: </pre> <blockquote id="StationeryCiteGenerated_3" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Tuesday 24 November 2009 12:59:40 Donatas G. wrote: </pre> <blockquote id="StationeryCiteGenerated_4" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I am trying to write a Dolphin service menu that would allow to attach a file to an email, but with a twist: I want the service menu to be universal enough to guess which email program the user is using. For that I need to find out how to get the name of the default email program via shell. Any ideas? Is there any dbus call I could make? If it were just kmail, the desktop file contents would look like this: [...] If I could get the default email program by executing some program in command line I could proceed... </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">Take a look at xdg-email (in xdg-utils). </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">OK, thank you, I see /usr/bin/xdg-email uses kreadconfig tool, but the script is evidently wrong; upon trying to use it I get an error, and the particular line kreadconfig --file emaildefaults --group PROFILE_Default --key EmailClient produces empty output. And I could find no clues online on how to use kreadconfig in KDE 4... I will have to dig deeper. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">kreadconfig also gives empty output here. I just tried xdg-email and it doesn't work. It says to install kmailservice. You need to install kdelibs4c2a for that. After installation, xdg-email works: $ xdg-email --subject "test" --body "test" <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Yes, but kdelibs4c2a is from kde3... So I deviced a possibly better idea: I found out that if the default email client in KDE is not kmail, then the file ~/.kde/share/config/emaildefaults contains a variable EmailClient with the program name. I am attaching a desktop file and a script that seem to make a potentially universal "send by email" service menu. The *.sh script goes to /usr/bin (and needs to be made executable), and the *.desktop file goes to /usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenu/ The service menu appears under „actions“ in the Dolphin context menu. Could someone using thunderbird test it? I do not have it configured currently, and am lazy to configure it just to test the script... Limitations: * no internationalization for the Subject: line (it would be possible if sh script is not used, and the command for a particular email client be written in the *.desktop file itself). * only thunderbird and kmail supported. Other clients would result in a kdialog message warning the user that their default email is not supported. * some advanced configurations are not supported (like thunderbird launched with a particular profile - the script would launch using the default profile...) If anyone sends me proper command line strings for attaching files to other email clients, I will gladly update the script. If this service menu idea turns interesting to others, I will put it into kde- apps.org. Donatas G. </pre> </blockquote> It does start Thunderbird compose window, but it does not seem to include the attachment. I could be missing something here, however, I always thought that the attachment would be showing just like it does after manually adding it to a message; that is not the case here. Tom Bell <pre class="moz-signature" cols="50"> Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal), Roman Poet, late 1st, early 2nd century AD ("Who will protect us from the protectors?") </pre> </body> </html>