Simple Send as Attachment for KDE file system

[woodsmoke]

This, apparently, allows one to right click a file, maybe a .doc in the file system and there will be an option to "send as attachment" and maybe Kmail automatically opens and one types in the addressee.

HOWEVER, when one right clicks a file now within say Dolphin one sees "send to" and it automatically opens kmail so and the document is there in the attachment window... don't know.

Maybe it LITERALLY mails the thing from within Konqueror some how...don't know..

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php...content=123121

woodsmoke

[SteveRiley]

Re: Simple Send as Attachment for KDE file system

The first page of the comments on that download shows a modified version of the service file:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
Actions=openKmailAttachment;
Encoding=UTF-8
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin,all/allfiles
ExcludeServiceTypes=application/x-iso,kdedevice/*,inode/directory

[Desktop Action openKmailAttachment]
Exec=kmail --composer --attach %F `echo attachment=\'file://%F\' | sed 's/ \//,file:\/\/\//g'`
Name=Send File As Attachment
Name[sk]=Poslať e-mailom
X-Ubuntu-Gettext-Domain=desktop_kdebase
Icon=kmail

The change from the original simply allows for selecting multiple files. The magic is in the "Exec" line, where you can see that it immediately calls Kmail's composer and attaches the file. The page has a link to another tool that accomplishes the same thing but with Thunderbird instead.

I'm curious about something you wrote, though:

HOWEVER, when one right clicks a file now within say Dolphin one sees "send to" and it automatically opens kmail so and the document is there in the attachment window... don't know.

Are you saying that you already have a "send to" in Dolphin without installing this tool? If so, that's interesting. My Dolphin is not similarly blessed. When you check Settings | Configure Dolphin | Services, do you see any "send to" in the list?

[vinnywright]

Re: Simple Send as Attachment for KDE file system

Are you saying that you already have a "send to" in Dolphin without installing this tool? If so, that's interesting. My Dolphin is not similarly blessed. When you check Settings | Configure Dolphin | Services, do you see any "send to" in the list?

yes and yes KDE-4.7.3 dolphin 1.7

but I have installed lots of ....stuff like a mount/unmount cd image menu item and more I'm shure.

VINNY

[SteveRiley]

Re: Simple Send as Attachment for KDE file system

but I have installed lots of ....stuff like a mount/unmount cd image menu item and more I'm shure.

Possibly one or more items from Get Hot New Stuff? In fact, when you click Download new services and enter send in the search box, the send-as tool that woodsmoke found is the second one in the list:

[vinnywright]

Re: Simple Send as Attachment for KDE file system

well it dosent show as installed . .... I see the same "install option" as in your shot thare but the root actions i do have installed shows a "Uninstall" button.

VINNY

[woodsmoke]

Re: Simple Send as Attachment for KDE file system

Hi guys
I have not downloaded anything from cool stuff but I have religiously installed all updates and did the distro upgrade.

As to the settings in Dolphin i have:

send to
send file via bluetooth

I have both of these on both the tower which is operating at a very nice clip and the slow as mollases toshiba lappy.

woodsmoke

[kubicle]

Re: Simple Send as Attachment for KDE file system

"kmail" package comes with:
/usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/kmail_addattachmentservicemenu.desktop
which adds "Send to" action to send as an attachment in kmail.

[woodsmoke]

Re: Simple Send as Attachment for KDE file system

Kubicle.

So, when Kmail is installed, it then interacts with Dolphin to put the "send to" into the right click menu so that when one does that it then automatically opens Kmail? right?

If so, then thanks very much for explaining that, I didn't know but that it was a Dolphin thing, in and of itself.

thanks again.

woodsmoke

[DoYouKubuntu]

Re: Simple Send as Attachment for KDE file system

I'm curious about something you wrote, though:

HOWEVER, when one right clicks a file now within say Dolphin one sees "send to" and it automatically opens kmail so and the document is there in the attachment window... don't know.

Are you saying that you already have a "send to" in Dolphin without installing this tool? If so, that's interesting. My Dolphin is not similarly blessed. When you check Settings | Configure Dolphin | Services, do you see any "send to" in the list?

Mine's not similarly blessed either, nor does it have 'send to' in its Services list. I can see it in the "Download new services" list (but didn't install it since I don't use KMail), but it's definitely not in any of my Dolphins on its own.

[SteveRiley]

Re: Simple Send as Attachment for KDE file system

"kmail" package comes with:
/usr/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus/kmail_addattachmentservicemenu.desktop
which adds "Send to" action to send as an attachment in kmail.

Mine's not similarly blessed either, nor does it have 'send to' in its Services list. I can see it in the "Download new services" list (but didn't install it since I don't use KMail), but it's definitely not in any of my Dolphins on its own.

My lack of mail send-to blessing is directly a result of my purging of KMail.

[kubicle]

Re: Simple Send as Attachment for KDE file system

So, when Kmail is installed, it then interacts with Dolphin to put the "send to" into the right click menu so that when one does that it then automatically opens Kmail? right?

Yes. Kmail package installs a servicemenu that allows sending files via kmail by right-clicking files in dolphin/konqueror. (servicemenus are sort of plugins that add functionality to dolphin/konqueror file/folder context menus).