On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 04:46:40PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > Le 05/03/2010 15:43, Harald Braumann a écrit : > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:30:45PM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > >> On 05.03.2010 15:18, Josselin Mouette wrote: > >>> Le vendredi 05 mars 2010 à 15:06 +0100, Harald Braumann a écrit : > >>>> I'd like to propose a `sensible-mailer' command. The main usage would > >>>> be to handle `mailto' links. But maybe such functionality already exists > >>>> and I'm just not aware of it, or there are specific reasons for not > >>>> implementing this. > >>> > >>> xdg-open handles mailto links just fine. > >> > >> not guaranteed: > >> from manpage: "xdg-open supports file, ftp, http and https URLs." > > > > It's xdg-email. It has exactly the interface that I would envision, but alas > > doesn't work. Not the whole world is a desktop. If it doesn't detect any of > > the desktop environments, it will call sensible-browser, which leads you > > back > > to where you've started (the browser, where you clicked the link). > > > > So we would still need a sensible-mailer command, that can be called in such > > a case. It's also necessary to convert the link to command line options for > > mailers that don't support mailto links. > > > Please no, not another one or we'll end up with the browser situation > (sensible-browser, gnome-www-browser, www-browser, x-www-browser, WTF?). > > xdg-email (or even xdg-open, fwiw) would definitely be the correct > solution, that way the user can set the mailer he wants. Make it have a > good default (a $MAILER better than a new command, imho) and you're done.
Fair enough. That seems to be sufficient and also the simplest solution. I just found out, that xdg-email calls xdg-email-hook.sh, if it is found in the path. So it seems everything is there already. I'd prefer a variable, but that's just a minor detail. Thanks all for the input. Cheers, harry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100305171400.gg21...@nn.nn