Can't Click Links from Evolution

[Douglas Summers]

On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 13:04 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 at 15:43:31 -0700, Douglas Summers wrote:
> > 
> > I did find references to both of the packages you mentioned below
> > here - 
> > https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal. Are these the
> > packages
> > you were referring to? If so, how do I install/build these into the
> > Flatpak system?
> You need to install xdg-desktop-portal and xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
> into
> the *host OS* using apt/dpkg or whatever other host-specific
> mechanism
> is appropriate, not as Flatpak apps, the same as you would have had
> to
> do for Flatpak itself. They are the bridge between the host OS and
> the
> Flatpak app.
> 
> If Linux Mint is a Debian or Ubuntu derivative, it might already have
> those packages available, or you might be able to get them from
> Debian or
> Ubuntu. <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xdg-desktop-portal> and
> <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk> have some
> developer information on the current state of those packages.
> 
> (You can replace xdg-desktop-portal-gtk with xdg-desktop-portal-kde
> or
> some other implementation if you want, but the -gtk version will fit
> best into a GNOME-derived desktop environment like Cinnamon, unless
> the
> Cinnamon developers have forked it or written their own. -gtk and
> -kde
> are currently the only backend implementations I know about.)
> 
>     smcv
> _______________________________________________

These packages are already installed: xdg-desktop-portal, xdg-desktop-
portal-dev, xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.