well... is Konqueror properly encoding the strings? is it using UTF-8 strings (it needs to be UTF-8)?
more valuable to us is the actual command-line that isn't working rather than %s and %t which have absolutely no meaning to us whatsoever. Jeff On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 13:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes I can get it to work from console also, but the same string coming > from KDE does not work. Gnome didnt work either. I installed the patches > for the security fix and the problem still exists. I guess if I had half a > brain I could probably look at the kde source myself and submit a patch. > But I dont have a clue as to where I would start in the code since I've > never even bothered to look at it. What I dont understand, is why it would > send %t just fine no matter where it is placed in the line, yet the other > variables will only work if they are the only thing in the line. Aniother > combination I have tried are as follows: > > evolution mailto:'%t'?subject='%s' > > This sends the T variable data, subject is blank. > > evolution mailto:'%t'?subject="%s" > > Sends T variable data, subject comes up as %s. > > evolution "mailto:%t?subject=%s"; > > This doesnt even open evolution. It just sits there and does nothing. > > evolution "mailto:%t"; > > Again, evo doesnt open. > > evolution mailto:%t?subject='%s' > > sens T data, subject is blank. > > evolution 'mailto:%t?subject=%s' > > Evo doesnt open. > > evolution 'mailto:'%t''?subject='%s'' > > Evo doesnt open. > > I have tried many other variations as well. But still none have worked > yet. Atleast I can get it to work with %t but its still broken by the fact > that it cannot use any of the other 4 variables available. Whether its KDE > that's broke or evo, I dont really know. All I can do is pretty much show > tests of what does and does not work. > > > > I just tried it with you test strings from a console. Works as expected > > her. (Evo was running.) > > > > % evolution mailto:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'?subject='Ebay test item' > > > > So Evo is handling that line correct. Seems like KDE does anything magic > > or weired with the parameters or the command line while passing it... > > > > > > Have you tried quoting all? Works too (from console). > > > > % evolution "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=Ebay test item" > > > > > > Did you try it from konsole instead of a link in Konqueror? > > > > > > > As for the people I spoke about that had the problems, if you search the > > > archives like a good little admin is suppose to do before yapping on a > > > List, you'll find a lot of people who couldn't figure out that they had > > > to add "mailto" to the command line. Those are who I spoke of. Some of > > > them touched on the %s problem, but no one really answered it. > > > > Sorry again, I never saw that question upcoming... > > > > > > > If going into Gnome doesn't work, I'll do the updates. I hadn't heard > > > that there were some out yet and see if that fixes anything. I doubt it, > > > but you never know. Stranger things have happened to me before. > > > > You can try updating, but I'm not sure, if it will fix your problem. > > That update was for security reasons -- I don't know any details about > > that. > > > > > > I don't have KDE installed, so I can't test further than a console. > > Hope, you get that solved... > > > > ...guenther > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
