[Portland] xdg-email & xdg-open

[Bastian, Waldo]

Hi Kevin,

 

I was wondering what to do with xdg-email and xdg-open. For a number of
reasons it seems likely that xdg-open will be used for mailto: urls as
much as xdg-email. Perhaps some of the xdg-email functionality should be
moved to xdg-utils-common so that xdg-open and xdg-email can share the
same implementation / work arounds.

 

Very much related to this is what to do with attachment handling.
Mozilla Thunderbird doesn't allow to specify attachments at all at the
moment because allowing that from a mailto URL is considered a security
risk. It would make sense to alllow this for explicitly specified
attachments as currently possible with xdg-email, but xdg-open shouldn't
allow one to specify attachments. The way that Qt uses xdg-open, even
for mailto URLs, is definittly going to be a problem here.

 

Cheers,

Waldo

 

Intel Corporation - Channel Platform Solutions Group - Hillsboro, Oregon

 

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