Allow Webapps as Preferred Applications
Submitted by Steve W.
Link to original bug (#557346)
Description
http://launchpad.net/bugs/275777
Originally Posted in LaunchPad:Ubuntu allow the user to select its prefered application but when user's prefered application is a web service (gmail or google calendar for instance) user can't use it within Ubuntu with the same level of integration.
For instance there is no easy way to select a popular webmail as default mail application. However you can find on the web a trick to use Gmail as GNOME’s default mailer for mailto links http://matthew.ruschmann.net/blog/Linux/gnome-gmail-1.1.html (that trick works on a system level, not only in Firefox like Firefox 3's new ability to register webapps as link handlers)