[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#581650: crazy mailto handling
Jonathan Nieder
jrnieder at gmail.com
Sun Jun 27 14:07:38 UTC 2010
block 581650 by 574131
tags 574131 + upstream
severity 574131 important
quit
Per Olofsson wrote:
> I suspect the culprit of this bug is xdg-email.
In fact chromium uses xdg-open, but the distinction is not so important.
> If it can't determine
> the MUA from the desktop environment (i.e. you don't run Gnome, KDE or
> Xfce) then it tries sensible-browser and hopes it can handle mailto: URLs.
>
> As maintainer of xdg-utils, I'm not sure how to solve this bug. Is there
> a standard way to launch a MUA in Debian?
Not that I know of. But really this is a cross-distro issue; has there
been any discussion of a standard way to register a mailto: url handler
without a desktop environment in the Portland group?
Curious,
Jonathan
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