Bug 360073

Summary: Changing the preferred email client results in the new setting not getting saved, so it has no effect
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Fellype <fellype>
Component: kcm_componentchooserAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: major CC: alex, bugseforuns, crazylegoguy, giecrilj, kaigue7, m.wege, nate, P.Suetterlin, psychonaut, ralf.habacker
Priority: NOR Keywords: usability
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Slackware   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: service file for OpenSUSE

Description Fellype 2016-03-04 14:48:27 UTC 
Menu "Actions" -> "Send as Email Attachment" opens KMail instead of the email client defined as the default component in "Settings manager" -> "Default apps" -> "email client"


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In the settings manager -> Default apps -> email client
2. In Default component, set "use a different email client" and choose an email client different of KMail (e.g.: thunderbird)
3. In the file manager (Dolphin or Konqueror), choose a file and right click on it
4. Choose "Actions" -> "Send as Email Attachment"

Actual Results:  
It opens KMail instead of the email client defined as the default component

Expected Results:  
To open the email client defined as the default component (e.g.: thunderbird)

Observation:
This bug occurs since KDE3.
Comment 1 Ralf Habacker 2016-11-29 09:40:47 UTC 
Created attachment 102517 [details]
service file  for OpenSUSE

From this thread https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=108244 I adapted a related service for openSUSE.
Comment 2 Ralf Habacker 2016-11-29 09:43:19 UTC 
confirmed with 4.14.25 on openSUSE. Has this issue been already solved with KF5 ?
Comment 3 Alex Loes 2017-01-27 08:38:50 UTC 
No, it hasn't. Look in bug 369394
Comment 4 Patrick Silva 2018-11-08 17:55:03 UTC 
*** Bug 369394 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2018-11-26 05:38:15 UTC 
*** Bug 400608 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Nate Graham 2018-11-26 05:41:07 UTC 
There appears to be an issue getting the setting to actually be saved.

Somehow I managed to get it to save "thunderbird %u" as my default email client at some point, but if I actually try to switch back to KMail, it still uses Thunderbird! So the change--any change--is not getting saved.
Comment 7 Nate Graham 2018-11-26 05:42:47 UTC 
*** Bug 373993 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Nate Graham 2018-11-26 05:44:54 UTC 
*** Bug 292606 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Nate Graham 2018-11-26 05:45:05 UTC 
*** Bug 379901 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Nate Graham 2018-11-26 05:45:15 UTC 
*** Bug 398246 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Nate Graham 2018-11-26 06:05:12 UTC 
~/.config/emaildefaults does seem to be getting updated properly, so that must not be where other things are looking...
Comment 12 Tristan Miller 2018-11-26 07:34:54 UTC 
Would it not have been better to dupe this bug to the much older Bug 292606, instead of the other way around?  The older bug has a lot more votes and useful information (including the earliest reported version).
Comment 13 Nate Graham 2018-11-27 00:36:08 UTC 
You're right, that would have made more sense. I'll go do that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 292606 ***