Re: Question about Preferred Applications

In other words: you enter to Gmail webpage, click on "Write" or "New" and write a new email. Or click on "Reply" and write your answer to a email received. All of this, you are doing it inside the Google Mail webpage. Is not a program. If you want use Gmail as a predeterminate email prog

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 11:26:01AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > >I found I could even configure gmail for white text on black which I >prefer. Never found a way to "log out?" Not sure what I'll do with >it but as I said earlier it's interesting and good to know. >

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 8/22/2012 11:19 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 22 August 2012 16:08, David wrote: >> On 8/22/2012 9:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > >>> We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist >>> in FF14, I haven't tried it either. > >> I should have mentioned that I am using Firefox 17.0

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 22/08/12 10:42, Suvayu Ali responds: That was the objective, to bring up compose addressed according to the mailto link. If you just want to view/read your emails, you can just change the url to"https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox";. If you want specific labels, you can try something lik

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 22 August 2012 16:08, David wrote: > On 8/22/2012 9:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote: >> We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist >> in FF14, I haven't tried it either. > I should have mentioned that I am using Firefox 17.0a1 (Nightly) and > this option is still there. 17!

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 8/22/2012 9:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote: > On 21 August 2012 21:56, David wrote: >> On 8/21/2012 4:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >>> On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote: If I understand what you want. >>> >>> My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for >>> mailto: links to

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:13:10AM -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote: > On 22/08/12 08:12, Suvayu Ali responds: > >How about using the following in a script: > > > > > >#!/bin/bash > > > >firefox "https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=${@}"; > > > > > >Where ${@} is any mail

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 22/08/12 08:12, Suvayu Ali responds: How about using the following in a script: #!/bin/bash firefox"https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=${@}"; Where ${@} is any mailto url like this:mailto:u...@example.com. -- Suvayu I tried this and it works. It brings up firefox and a

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 08/22/2012 06:08 AM, Ian Malone wrote: http://blog.ffextensionguru.com/2008/09/24/gmail-as-default-for-mailto/ We're far beyond Firefox 3 now, but this option still seems to exist in FF14, I haven't tried it either. Perfect! -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 08/22/2012 05:12 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: How about using the following in a script: #!/bin/bash firefox"https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=${@}"; Where ${@} is any mailto url like this:mailto:u...@example.com. Thank you. I'll try it and see what happens. -- users mailing lis

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 21 August 2012 21:56, David wrote: > On 8/21/2012 4:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote: >>> If I understand what you want. >> >> My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for >> mailto: links to be her gmail account in Firefox. The only reaso

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 01:47:02PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/19/2012 01:32 PM, Larry Brower wrote: > >You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or > >Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use. > > > >Which Desktop is she using? > > Both of us are using X

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 8/21/2012 4:35 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote: >> If I understand what you want. > > My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for > mailto: links to be her gmail account in Firefox. The only reason the > thread's still active is that somebod

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 08/21/2012 01:12 PM, David wrote: If I understand what you want. My sister wanted to know if we could set her preferred application for mailto: links to be her gmail account in Firefox. The only reason the thread's still active is that somebody replied to an old message several days afte

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 8/21/2012 2:04 PM, Jack Craig wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Lailah > wrote: > > __ > > Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail, > > > Please explain this comment? I use gmail via FF all the time, ! ??? > i mean, i

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 5:41 AM, Lailah wrote: > ** > > Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail, > Please explain this comment? I use gmail via FF all the time, ! ??? i mean, i know the difference between an email client and a browser, ... msg entered to gmail under FF tab

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

Firefox is NOT an email client, so it will not open with Gmail, it will open as what it is: a web browser. If you want open Gmail automatically, go to Thunderbird and set it up the Gmail account. You can use POP (download mails to your computer, leaving the originals in the server) or IMAP (

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 08/19/2012 08:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her > primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on > mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT, > there's no obvious way to do it. Does an

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/19/2012 03:47 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 08/19/2012 01:32 PM, Larry Brower wrote: >> You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or >> Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use. >> >> Which Desktop is she usin

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

Am 19.08.2012 21:57, schrieb Joe Zeff: > My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her primary > email address is at gmail. She'd like > to be able to click on mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of > Thunderbird. and why not simply configure the gmail-account vi

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

On 08/19/2012 01:32 PM, Larry Brower wrote: You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use. Which Desktop is she using? Both of us are using Xfce. Firefox isn't listed by default as an email application (That's th

Re: Question about Preferred Applications

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/19/2012 02:57 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her > primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on > mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAIC

Question about Preferred Applications

My sister uses Linux, and has Thunderbird installed. However, her primary email address is at gmail. She'd like to be able to click on mailto: links and have gmail come up instead of Thunderbird. AFAICT, there's no obvious way to do it. Does anybody out there know how that could be automate