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February 08, 2006
iPhoto'06 still doesn't know about ThunderBird
Yeah, I just installed iPhoto'06 and noticed that you still can't email photos using thunderbird. I think this is really stupid. Specially if there is an option to customize it, and it includes other options, but not thunderbird. Is apple trying to make us use Mail.app?
Posted by null at February 8, 2006 03:52 PM
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Albie,
usually the glue between Apple apps is AppleScript, so iPhoto probably has a AppleScript somewhere that mails the selected photos.
The obvious solution would be to change that AppleScript to call Thunderbird. But there you would hit the next wall: ThunderBird does not support AppleScript, so it will never be a good Mac Citizen.
For all the love I have for Mozilla Foundation, I cannot recommend their products to anyone using a Mac, *if* they expect seamless connectivity with other apps.
On the last question, yes, of course Apple would prefer you to use Mail.app, and yes, of course they will make it easier to use iPhoto with Mail.app. It makes all the sense because "normal" people don't want to fiddle with that stuff.
On the other hand, the use of external AppleScript files (read: ones that you can modify), Apple leaves the door open to anyone with knowledge of AppleScript to plug their preferend mail application.
As long as they support the lingua franca of Macs: apple script.
Having said that, if you can convince Thunderbird to pick some files from a temp directory and create a new message with them as attachs, you probably could do this without AppleScript support in Thunderbird...
Posted by: Pedro Melo at February 8, 2006 08:55 PM
Yep, I know they want us to use Mail.app. It is their application, after all.
But no, I can't use Mail.app or Safari. I tried, but I do not like them. Oh well... and, not, I didn't like Camino as well.
Posted by: Alberto at February 11, 2006 02:47 PM