[Portland] Bug#574131: xdg-utils: xdg-email never launchs a mua if desktop is not gnome neither kde neither xfce

[Per Olofsson]

Hi,

2010-10-22 18:15, Jonathan Nieder skrev:
>  - I think it would be good to call the envvar XDG_MAILER, because
>    (1) the mailer for use in the console may not be the mailer to
>    use on the desktop, and (2) it would be nice to leave open the
>    possibility of a MAILER variable along the lines of BROWSER with
>    more useful semantics in the future.

Well, it's not specific to "XDG". I think it should be called MAILER.

According to this page, it already exists:
http://catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/

but there is no description of it.

I wonder if the X issue can be solved similarly to BROWSER. I'm not even
sure how it's solved with BROWSER. What if the user doesn't want a
graphical browser?

-- 
Pelle