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. Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis -- 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/4b912760.5060...@debian.org