Swiftfox (Beta?) issue - mailto: links won't open in thunderbird

[Jongi]

When I click a mailto: link, it opens evolution instead. I have nothing against evolution. it's just that I haven't found a way to share the same profile across different distros.

In any event I have the following attributes set in config:about

network.protocol-handler.external.mailto      true
network.protocol-handler.app.mailto           /usr/bin/thunderbird

And thunderbird is installed

[root:~#] locate thunderbird | grep bin
/usr/bin/thunderbird
/usr/lib64/thunderbird-2.0.0.12/libgtkxtbin.so
/usr/lib64/thunderbird-2.0.0.12/thunderbird-bin
/usr/lib64/thunderbird-2.0.0.12/res/html/gopher-binary.gif
[root:~#] ls -la /usr/bin/thunderbird 
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2260 2008-02-27 01:50 /usr/bin/thunderbird

Using /usr/bin/thunderbird from the command line works.

I am currently using KDE and have KDE set to launch /usr/bin/thunderbird as the default mail app.

[Jongi]

Well there you go. Even when running KDM and not GDM, some processes are still pulled from Gnome. In Gnome, Evolution was set as the preferred mail app. Not the first time I've had to change a setting in gnome although I am running KDE and KDM.

[root:~#] ps aux | grep kdm
root      2397  0.0  0.0  30196   912 ?        Ss   Apr30   0:00 /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
root     29510  0.0  0.0  82240   760 pts/1    S+   20:33   0:00 grep kdm
[root:~#] ps aux | grep gdm
root     29514  0.0  0.0  82236   748 pts/1    S+   20:33   0:00 grep gdm

EDIT: The same issue happened in xfce even when Thunderbird was the default client on xfce.