using thunderbird with knotes

[Guest]

Today I played around with desktop notes on my ubuntu hardy. I noticed that knotes offers some nice features I do not have with tomboy. Since I use thunderbird, I wanted knotes make use of thunderbird instead of kmail. After some tests I ended up with the following solution. It might not be perfect but it works for me. If you find a more elegant way (e.g. without an additional script) I would like to hear about it.

1. I created a script /usr/bin/knotes_thunderbird.sh with the following content:

#!/bin/sh

thunderbird -compose $1="'$2'",$3="'$4'"

Please be careful about the quotes! Otherwise you might see the body of your mail broken.

2. change the settings of knotes für e-mail to

/usr/bin/knotes_thunderbird.sh subject %t body %f

[ronw]

Re: using thunderbird with knotes

Thanks for the idea. I had to use a slightly different command line in the shell script:

thunderbird -compose "$1='$2',$3='$4'"