firstly, i'm running puppy 4.3.1 frugal and seamonkey 2.0.3 and 1.1.18. if anyone has a solution that will work on either of these, let me know. i'd love to hear it.
this has been my approach so far:
first, i followed these instructions http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/browserfaq/mailto and set the following preference in my seamonkey about:config:
i then tried to make seamonkey (the web-browser) the system default email client so that mailto links would go to it. didn't get anywhere down that road. none the less i still have that preference in my about:config.network.protocol-handler.external.mailto user set boolean true
i then set another preference in my about:config
i hoped that i could write a script called open_mailto.sh that would take the mailto info, insert it into a gmail url and pass it back to seamonkey to open a new window or tab with the url.network.protocol-handler.external.mailto user set string /root/my-applications/open_mailto.sh
at this point, mailto links no longer triggered the seamonkey mail client, but instead triggred a pop window which read
.mailto is not a registered protocol
i was just about to give up when, inexplicably, i clicked on a mailto link and got this message instead:
http://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B3KqNbx ... MDNk&hl=en
this behavior occurs in 1.1.18 but not 2.0.3 (even though i set the same about:config preferences described above in both of them). in 1.1.18, i can click the "launch application" button and, sure enough, the script runs. the problem is, i can't figure out how to write a script to open a new tab or window in 1.1.18.
in 2.0.3, i can use "seamonkey -new-tab <gmail mailto url mumbo jumbo>" to open a new tab, which makes the script seem feasible. however, 2.0.3 won't trigger the script and gives me the "mailto is not a registered protocol" message.
can anyone help?
my name is eric and i am addicted to solving little problems in puppy linux.
