Subject: Re: bug#38314: No /usr/share/applications mailto presence

From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:11:09 +0200

>>>>> On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 14:55:51 +0200, Gĳs Hillenius <[email-masked]> said:

    Gĳs> On  6 August 2020 14:54 Lars Ingebrigtsen, wrote:
    >> Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:
    >> 
    >>> Anyway, with Emacs 28 (and if the distributors include the .desktop file
    >>> in the correct place), you should be able to choose Emacs as the system
    >>> mailer and clicking on mailto: links should open Emacs in a Message buffer.
    >> 
    >> (I really thought that this already existed, but I grepped for mailto
    >> and couldn't find any handlers for it.

    Gĳs> The sample file uses:
    Gĳs> Exec=emacs -f message-mailto %u

    Gĳs> Would this work as well?
    Gĳs> Exec=/usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs-snapshot -f message-mailto

You might want to add '-a=""' to that (and in fact we should probably
consider it for the default as well)

Robert