Bug#806254: Unable to send mail from gscan2pdf due to unknown desktop environment

2015-11-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeffrey Ratcliffe [2015-11-27 09:48 +1300]: > > Gosh, I love "desktops". > > Have you set $MAILER ? > > What about > > xdg-open "x@y" fishbowl:~% xdg-open "x@y" xdg-open: file 'x@y' does not exist fishbowl:~% xdg-open "mailto:x@y"; (→ icedove) Exporting $MAILER does not change thi

Bug#806254: Unable to send mail from gscan2pdf due to unknown desktop environment

2015-11-26 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 26 November 2015 at 21:21, martin f krafft wrote: > xdg-settings --list has nothing. > > Gosh, I love "desktops". Have you set $MAILER ? What about xdg-open "x@y" ?

Bug#806254: Unable to send mail from gscan2pdf due to unknown desktop environment

2015-11-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeffrey Ratcliffe [2015-11-27 08:58 +1300]: > However - you say that at one point it was doing what you wanted. Does > the following do something useful: > > xdg-email --attach $attachment 'x\@y' It fires up icedove. In the past, it would fire up a terminal with mutt in it. I'd be fi

Bug#806254: Unable to send mail from gscan2pdf due to unknown desktop environment

2015-11-26 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 26 November 2015 at 02:50, martin f krafft wrote: > % xdg-mime query default "x-scheme-handler/mailto" > icedove.desktop > > That is *an* installed MUA, but not the one I use or want to use. :-) hmmm. Perhaps a workaround might be to create a user-defined tool, but that would only work for a

Bug#806254: Unable to send mail from gscan2pdf due to unknown desktop environment

2015-11-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Jeffrey Ratcliffe [2015-11-26 10:30 +1300]: > xdg-mime query default "x-scheme-handler/mailto" % xdg-mime query default "x-scheme-handler/mailto" icedove.desktop That is *an* installed MUA, but not the one I use or want to use. -- .''`. martin f. krafft @martinkrafft : :' :

Bug#806254: Unable to send mail from gscan2pdf due to unknown desktop environment

2015-11-25 Thread Jeffrey Ratcliffe
On 25 November 2015 at 21:52, martin f krafft wrote: > — gscan2pdf won't let me e-mail scans to people anymore. I am told > it cannot identify the desktop environment and hence doesn't know > how what mail client I use. What does xdg-mime query default "x-scheme-handler/mailto" return?

Bug#806254: Unable to send mail from gscan2pdf due to unknown desktop environment

2015-11-25 Thread martin f krafft
Package: gscan2pdf Version: 1.3.5-1 Severity: normal For a while now — I am sorry, I don't know when it started — gscan2pdf won't let me e-mail scans to people anymore. I am told it cannot identify the desktop environment and hence doesn't know how what mail client I use. Well, I use no desktop e