[Portland] [PATCH/RFC 0/2] Re: xdg-email without GNOME, KDE, or XFCE

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi again,

Sorry for the long silence.

Per Olofsson wrote:
> 2010-06-29 14:54, Jonathan Nieder skrev:

>> 1. xdg-open uses the $BROWSER environment to find a handler for remote
>> URIs, which makes a lot of sense.  But xdg-settings does not provide a
>> means (or hint) to read or change that variable.
>
> How exactly should it change the variable? I don't think it should be
> poking around in the user's ~/.profile

Maybe it could look for a file in ~/.config when $BROWSER is not set?
But this does not feel so urgent to me.

> Regarding a "hint", how would that be done? xdg-settings is
> non-interactive, and usually called by a GUI application-

Since it is non-interactive, I guess the only thing to do is mention
the configuration mechanism in the man page.

Maybe xdg-settings could have an option to go interactive?  This
would be useful in desktop environments as well (automatically opening
the "control center" app).

>> A simple solution might be an $XDG_MAILER variable that gets set to a
>> command that should be passed a mailto: URI as an argument.
>
> Sounds good.

Ok, here's a quick attempt.

Thoughts?

Jonathan Nieder (2):
  xdg-email: Explain in man page how to set the default mailer
  xdg-email: learn XDG_MAILER variable

 scripts/desc/xdg-email.xml |   90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 scripts/xdg-email.in       |    8 ++++
 2 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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