Per Olofsson schrob: > 2010-06-28 15:55, Jonathan Nieder skrev: > > As you can see, I suspect would require some kind of per-package > > registration to be usable. Grasping at straws, I suggest maybe a > > field in the .desktop file. Is there prior art for this? Is there a > > relevant mailng list?
I'm not aware of anything. But I'm being bold and propose $MAILER as
user-configurable place, analogous to $EDITOR, $BROWSER, $PAGER.[1]
Patch attached.
Actually, while writing that patch, I discovered that it's possible to
configure/override xdg-email's behaviour by placing xdg-email-hook.sh in
your path. That's completely undocumented, and IMHO worse style than an
environment variable, so I'm going to pretend it doesn't exist.
> Or use "/usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt URL".
> [...]
> As I said, I think workarounds should go into the xdg-email script.
> E-mail clients wishing to avoid workarounds can always learn to accept
> mailto: URLs as arguments.
Well, mutt does, so xdg-email should try mutt if it doesn't find a DE.
Patch attached for that too. It checks for existance of ~/.muttrc to
avoid biting GUI people who happen to use a box with mutt installed.
Both patches apply independently or on top of each other. Please apply
both. :)
And now that I've made xdg-email open mutt, I realize that my personal
scenario is not helped at all by that, because none of my infrequently
used browsers (links2, arora, konqueror, iceweasel, dillo) actually
_uses_ xdg-email by default, they still all stand there looking stupid.[2]
I guess links2 and iceweasel win points for at least offering a way to
configure a mailto: handler. Gnagnagna. Dealing with graphical browsers
is detrimental to my health.
Jan
[1] $MUA would be more technically correct. But consistency wins, IHMO.
[2] Well, arora spawns konqueror for standing there & looking stupid. ;)
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