Bug#746707: working in stretch / Firefox

[Daniel Pocock]

I've tested on stretch with
Firefox 52.2.0esr-1~deb9u1
Epiphany 3.22.7-1
Thunderbird 1:45.8.0-3
 (using xul-ext-tbdialout 1.7.2-1)

and I'm pleased to see it working, except for one unrelated tbdialout bug.

To test, I created /home/daniel/bin/sipdialer-test:

#!/bin/bash

echo $1 >> /tmp/sipdialer.log




and ~/.local/share/applications/sipdialer.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=sipdialer
GenericName=Click to dial
Comment=Click to dial
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
TryExec=/home/daniel/bin/sipdialer-test
Exec=/home/daniel/bin/sipdialer-test %u
Terminal=false
Categories=System
Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/vlc.png
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/tel;



and also edited .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

[Added Associations]
...
x-scheme-handler/tel=sipdialer.desktop
...




Then I ran "update-menus" and I was able to click a "tel" link in
Firefox and it launched ~/bin/sipdialer-test with the phone number as an
argument.

GNOME Evolution in stretch also supports the same handler now[1] and I
tested that too and it passes a similar URL to the handler.  That means
the same handler script (maybe sipdialer from reSIProcate or something
else) can handle the "tel:" URI (click-to-dial) from Firefox,
Thunderbird and Evolution.

One problem I noticed with tbdialout: it strips the leading "+" from the
phone number.  It is necessary to add it back in the plugin preferences,
under "Replace leading + with:", maybe it should be there by default as
it is non-intuitive what will happen when that field is blank.

Regards,

Daniel


1. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729084