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see gnome-default-applications-properties

see gnome-default-applications-properties

Posted Nov 22, 2010 19:41 UTC (Mon) by jku (subscriber, #42379)
In reply to: Typos by wookey
Parent article: Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs

In GNOME gnome-default-applications-properties will let you choose the default mailto handler. You can set a custom entry like "/home/wookey/bin/mail-handler.sh %s". Mozilla products respect this, I think.

The current setup seems to allow what you want but it's pretty limited in many ways. See Bastien Noceras blog for some recent mimetype-related developments: http://www.hadess.net/2010/10/new-control-center-and-you....


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