On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Rene Engelhard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 01:11:13PM -0400, Dave Steele wrote: ... > >> The Debian LibreOffice sensible-lomua patch defines the default mail >> handler, by going through a predefined list of MUA's in a set order, >> and setting the mailer to the first one found on the system. In >> practice, this means that "Send Document by Email" invokes Evolution, >> regardless of which mailer may be configured by the user. > > If you have evolution installed and didn't manually set the option yourself > in the options, yes.
The point is that I should be able to configure the mailer in GNOME, instead of in LibreOffice (and whatever other applications). > >> Starting in 3.6, senddoc.sh handles mailers that it does not >> understand by executing xdg-open (or another of its ilk) with a mailto >> URL. This allows the desktop to manage which mailer is to be used. > > Ah. > > But what happens if xdg-utils isn't installed? senddoc.sh also checks for and uses kde-open or gnome-open. As the developer of a smaller MUA (gnome-gmail), I'd prefer a LibreOffice strategy of searching for mailto: handlers, rather than checking for mail handlers sorted by popularity. > >> The attached patch amends sensible-lomua.diff to make 'sensible-lomua' >> an undefined case in senddoc.sh, in effect making xdg-open the default >> MUA interface. > > The attached patch is nonsense, sorry. > Why not fix sensible-lomua.diff instead instead of adding a new patch which > in fact > removes sensible-lomua.diff? > It's a mess, granted. I had some difficulty setting up the work environment. This was the easiest way for me to define the changes. It doesn't remove the whole sensible-lomua patch - just the modifications to senddoc.sh. "sensible-lomua" is still the configured mailer, but it is not defined in senddoc, invoking the 'unknown mailer' code. > But I see the point of this patch.. > > But we probably should check for xdg-open, use it if there and if not, do what > we have already? > That would meet my needs. Note that senddoc does not have a case for e.g. xdg-open. You would need to define a bogus mailer if xdg-open is found. The patch should probably also check for kde-open and gnome-open - see the senddoc.sh *) case. > Regards, > > Rene Thanks for the prompt reply. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caohcdnbw1wot+ughvyuzds23fa71jzo7g0-dwk2e97mnhyi...@mail.gmail.com
