[PUSHED] Re: [PATCH] EasyHack #32621 - More robust ExternalMailer support

[Dave Steele]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Jan Holesovsky <kendy at suse.cz> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> On 2012-04-27 at 19:34 +0200, Thorsten Behrens wrote:
>
> > > Proposed patch attached to use the gnome-open/xdg-open URI handler,
> > > with a mailto link, when the currently configured mailer is not
> > > recognized.
> >
> > hmm - can you elaborate a bit when that case happens?
>
> So I guess that is for the case the user writes something broken into
> the mailer setting, which results in non-working sending of email.


No. This is for the case where the user has a valid mailer selected
which is not specifically supported by senddoc - in my case
gnome-gmail.

> ...
> I am afraid it is not as standardized as we would love it to be ;-) -
> though the configuration backends seem to do a reasonable job to setup
> something usable there, at least in gnome / kde [at least for me].
>

Try it for a mailer which is not covered by one of the senddoc case's,
such as gnome-gmail.


> As this is (according to my incomplete mail archive) your first
> contribution to LibreOffice - can you please send a license statement to
> this mailing list stating that all your contributions to LibreOffice are
> licensed under the MPL / LGPLv3+?

WIll do.