Control: tag -1 patch Hello!
On Sat, 2020-07-11 at 18:05 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > Package: xdg-utils > Version: 1.1.3-2 > Severity: normal > Tags: upstream > > Steps to reproduce: > > * Be in LXQT, Enlightenment, or any desktop environment that does not > match one of xdg-email's special cases (I used lxqt-core) > * Install a graphical MUA (I used balsa) > * Install a text-mode MUA that has a .desktop file (I used mutt) > * Set balsa as the default MUA. In a throwaway test environment, you can do > this with: > mkdir ~/.config > (echo "[Default Applications]"; echo > x-scheme-handler/mailto=balsa-mailto-handler.desktop) > > ~/.config/mimeapps.list > (or in a non-throwaway environment you'll want to edit the file with a > text editor to preserve existing configuration). > * Alt+F2, xdg-email m...@example.com > (or the desktop's "run a command" functionality, whatever that is: Alt+F2 > is correct for at least GNOME and LXQT) > * If balsa launches, exit from it > * Set mutt as the default MUA, for example: > (echo "[Default Applications]"; echo x-scheme-handler/mailto=mutt.desktop) > > ~/.config/mimeapps.list > * Alt+F2, xdg-email m...@example.com > * In a terminal emulator, xdg-email m...@example.com > > Expected result: > > (This is what will happen if you use a GNOME-derived desktop or XFCE, > instead of LXQT.) > > * After first "xdg-email", balsa appears. After completing the setup wizard > if necessary, there is a new blank draft email to m...@example.com. > * After second "xdg-email", a terminal emulator appears, with a new blank > email to m...@example.com opened in mutt > * After third "xdg-email", another terminal emulator appears, again with a > new blank email to m...@example.com opened in mutt > > Actual result: > > * After first "xdg-email", balsa appears as expected. > * After second "xdg-email", nothing happens. > * After third "xdg-email", mutt runs in the terminal emulator from which > you ran xdg-email. > > Workaround: > > * Install xterm (workaround for #773915) > * Ensure you have libglib2.0-bin installed > * Run: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME xdg-email m...@example.com > Yesterday, I sent to salsa.d.o my implementation for such .desktop files of terminal applications. The commit relies on Debian specific x-terminal-emulator executable and additionally checks that a controlling tty is available. It opens a new window if the script was launched not from terminal. So your third case is excluded. Please note, xdg-email internally invokes xdg-open with mailto: protocol prepended. https://salsa.debian.org/freedesktop-team/xdg-utils/-/commit/9bd941413a42b78eb4e821674496366f6a43333b
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