[Portland] The Code

[Bryce Harrington]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 07:29:25PM +0100, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > Ah, yes that's probably the case here; I was running just the generic
> > implementation.  For the mailto, what if the generic simply invoked
> > the 'mail' program in a shell?  It'd be ugly but functional.  I don't
> > know if anyone would use it like that, but it'd serve as a way to
> > illustrate what the non-generic versions should do, and maybe provide a
> > simple test case for the core code.
> 
>  It's marked as TODO there, and the KDE implementation is enough to show it 
> works :). I'm not sure what a final generic implementation of things like 
> mailto should do - having it to always do at least something, even if as ugly 
> as running "mail" in a shell, would make the application side easier, but 
> then maybe some things should be rather expected to fail. With the current 
> situation of every app rolling their own solution it shouldn't be that big 
> problem for these apps to fall back on something they consider generic. Maybe 
> the generic solution should be considered kind of a desktop too, with perhaps 
> its own configuration tool for things like this.

Yeah, good points.  I actually use mutt, so the mailto: handling doesn't
tend to work anyway.  ;-) 

Bryce