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I post this partially as a how-to but also to solicit any possible better ways to accomplish this (add a package to CR?).
[ BTW, M11 64-bit and Thunderbird 11 from CR ]

I wanted a servicemenu to add the ability to right-click a file in Dolphin and select to email via Thunderbird. I found this:

I restarted dolphin, but it didn't work.

After fiddling around I found that I had to move the 122832-thunderbird_attachment.desktop file from
/home/user/.kde/share/apps/servicemenu-download/
to
/home/user/.kde/share/kde4/services/

Now I do have "attach to Thunderbird mail" in the action menu.

Cheers


Edit: to get thunderbird icon to show: open /home/user/.kde/share/kde4/services/122832-thunderbird_attachment.desktop
and change the icon line to:

Good find, and very useful; thanks.

Can I just add that if, like me, you have installed Thunderbird from a tarball to your own chosen location, you have to edit the Exec line in the .desktop file to point to where Thunderbird is installed, leaving the rest of the line as-is. In my case, this was:

Exec=/opt/thunderbird/thunderbird (rest as original)

Likewise, you need to change the icon line to the new location, for example:

Icon=/opt/thunderbird/chrome/icons/default/default16.png

Chris