Hi, 2010-10-23 02:47, Jan Braun skrev: > [ wildly merged quotes from 3 mails. I hope you don't mind.]
Not at all :-) > Per Olofsson schrob: >> Thanks. There's a problem though. xdg-email is meant specifically for >> GUI programs. That means there's no tty available in general. So you >> can't simply run mutt - you need to run it in a terminal window. > > /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt already does that (in addition to > parsing mailto: links). And it shouldn't be too hard to prevent it from > spawning an x-terminal-emulator if already in a terminal. In fact: Actually, I found out that mutt supports mailto: links without that script. >> I wonder if the X issue can be solved similarly to BROWSER. I'm not >> even sure how it's solved with BROWSER. What if the user doesn't want >> a graphical browser? > > That's me! And I seem to have success with ... OK. >> Then xdg-email will have to recognize that it's not an X app and also >> launch it in a terminal. How will it know that? I guess that doesn't >> work with BROWSER either at the moment. > > Correct, xdg-email can't know if $MAILER is an X app. The user has to > supply that information, by not prefixing withrun-in-terminal.sh . > (Unless she knows she'll never use xdg-email from inside a native X > application, then she could guarantee alpine always has a terminal. Ha! > Not what you expected she'd do to your GUI-helper. ;) Right :-) >> Thirdly, your patch always uses the MAILER variable if it's defined, >> even when running under a DE. I'm not sure that's the correct thing to do. > > No problem, I am sure. :D > Having set the environment variable is an explicit statement of the form > "I demand mutt as my mua!". Using a DE, in contrast, is more along the > line of "I generally like what GNOME is doing", it's much less specific > about my email preferences. Makes sense. It's different from how xdg-open handles $BROWSER, but maybe that's not a problem. > Thanks. And I guess that EDITOR/VISUAL/PAGER never supported X or the > colon-fallthough-scheme, but just assume they're running in a terminal? Yes, I suppose so. -- Pelle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
