[SOLVED] Making IceDove (Thunderbird) show network folders in a KDE environment

[Visuthan]

Hi there,
I am running Debian Wheezy and I use KDE as my desktop environment at work. Most of the people here use Windows/Outlook for e-mail and thus most e-mails are formatted in HTML. I use IceDove because its HTML support is much better than Kmail.

Now, I have several Network Folders (smb) set up in Dolphin. When I used to use Kmail, these folders would show up in the Save/Attach options and I would directly use files on the network share.

Once I switched to IceDove, I was not able to do this. The problem appears to be that the Attach/Save dialogue comes from GTK (sorry but I don't know how else to put it). I'm attaching screenshots for clarification.

My question: is it possible for me to configure IceDove/GTK to show network folders or to configure network folders in them or is the only option to go and install something like Nautilus (which installs a bunch of Gnome stuff)?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks,
Vivek

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[Visuthan]

Ok. Turns out that there are a few ways this can be done.

Option 1: Use gvfs
gvfs-mount is what Nautilus uses when it mounts network shares like Samba shares. The files are mounted at ~/.gvfs/. If you mount the share with gvfs, it shows up in the IceDove Save/Attach dialog. Not sure if a gvfs mount is done at boot time. It didn't do that for me.

Option 2: Mount Network Share at mount point with full user priveleges
If I mount the share with option uid and gid at a mount point where the user has full priveleges, it turns up in the IceDove dialog. No need for gvfs and such things. When I say full user priveleges, I mean that the user using IceDove must have privileges to access the mount point.

I opted for option 2 and edited fstab to mount the share at boot.

Vivek