[16:29] <lotuspsychje> leftyfb: when clicking on an ubuntu channel from community support/discourse the irc: link gives a window to pick between mibbit ir system handler (in my case hexchat) do you know if thunderbird is on system handler by default?
[16:30] <leftyfb> no clue
[16:31] <lotuspsychje> would be cool if a user clicked on a channel and thunderbird jumps open on a vanilla ubuntu
[16:33] <leftyfb> exactly
[16:42] <lotuspsychje> thunderbird settings doesnt show any make this to default irc
[16:44] <lotuspsychje> and FF shows irc handler to 'always ask' (system handler vs mibbit)
[17:29] <Fallen> I'm not sure if someone else did this more recently, but what feels like about 10 years ago I had tried to add support for Thunderbird to take operating system default handlers and it was quite a mess, to the point where I gave up. There had been no distro independent way to do this.
[17:30] <leftyfb> it works fine for email links
[17:30] <leftyfb> "mailto:"
[17:34] <lotuspsychje> lemme try a vm on jammy
[18:00] <lotuspsychje> no dice
[18:01] <lotuspsychje> no application found when i yelp==>community support==>irc channels==> click #ubuntu ==> system handler==> no application found
[18:07] <lotuspsychje> too bad
[18:14] <lotuspsychje> and FF doesnt seem to like mibbit neither
[18:14] <lotuspsychje> gives the continue at your own risk window
[18:17] <leftyfb> I asked about making hexchat(I think it was xchat at the time) a default installed application on ubuntu. It was turned down
[18:19] <lotuspsychje> leftyfb: xchat was default on an early version of ubuntu once
[18:20] <lotuspsychje> till ubuntu 5.10
[18:20] <leftyfb> ah, I didn't start until 7.04
[18:21] <lotuspsychje> dont think ive ever tested that neither
[18:21] <lotuspsychje> so i could file a thunderbird wishlist, but prob not much change they will add system handler by default?
[18:22] <leftyfb> seems silly they would bother integrating an IRC client but not giving it a handler
[18:22] <leftyfb> to be honest, I'd be afraid they would just as soon remove the IRC part
[18:22] <lotuspsychje> you think i should file it?
[18:22] <lotuspsychje> its actualy a pretty decent chat
[18:23] <leftyfb> I used it once when it was first added just to see. I don't remember it at al
[18:23] <leftyfb> I'm very set in my ways with applications :)
[18:23] <lotuspsychje> same here
[18:23] <lotuspsychje> but this is for luring our users :p
[18:24] <leftyfb> which is funny because I use thunderbird extensively. I've got 7 email accounts and 4 calendars added to it
[18:24] <lotuspsychje> the email client is real decent too yeah
[18:24] <lotuspsychje> i even got win customers running it
[18:24] <leftyfb> before thunderbird, I used Eudora :)
[18:25] <lotuspsychje> not familiar
[18:25] <lotuspsychje> oh well, im gonna file the wishlist anyway, would could go wrong eh
[18:26] <leftyfb> they could remove the irc client completely because it's easier than dealing with it :)
[18:26] <lotuspsychje> loll
[18:26] <leftyfb> it's funny, typing Eudora into google, the first relevant link is to computerhistory.org. That should tell you something
[18:30] <lotuspsychje> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1983144
[18:31] <lotuspsychje> hggdh: can you convert to wishlist (again) please? : )
[18:40] <hggdh> lotuspsychje: done
[18:41] <lotuspsychje> tnx very much hggdh