Bug 38121

Summary: xdg-open generic should call xdg-email for mailto: links
Product: Portland Reporter: chadberg
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: freedesktop.zen.ssokolow
Version: 1.1.0 rc1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:

Description chadberg 2011-06-09 09:58:19 UTC 
Not every application is well enough behaved to call xdg-email for mailto: links, and not everyone is using a DE that will handle this.  In these cases, xdg-open should detect the mailto: and pass it on to xdg-email.

e.g., in my own xdg-open I have added 

> if (echo "$1" | grep -q '^mailto:')
>         then xdg-email "$1"
>         exit_success
>     fi

to the open_generic routine, after the file: check and before passing it to the browser.  I had a circumstance where clicking a mailto: on a web page was opening a new blank browser window instead of the intended behavior.
Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-16 13:30:52 UTC 
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