Re: [Evolution] Evolution bug in Mailto for KDE

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

cheers();


> I have been researching how to setup Evolution as the default mail
> handler for Konqueror and I've been half successful. Here is what I have
> so far.
[...]

> /usr/bin/evolution mailto:%t?subject=%s
> This passes the TO field correctly, but the subject line is blank.
>
> /usr/bin/evolution mailto:%s
> This passes the subject into the TO field, which means %s is working.
>
> /usr/bin/evolution mailto:%s?subject=%t
> This does NOT pass the subject into the to field (Why? It did in the
> above line.) And passes the To variable (%t) to the subject line as it
> should have.
>
> It looks to me like something is broken with the Evolution command line
> for accepting variables from KDE somehow.

First of all: How does your test strings look like??

I suspect, there were at least a blank inside the %s subject. That
surely would screw up the command line, as all parameters to evolution
are treated as URI themselves.

To prevent that, try ' or " chars around %s and %t.


You can check that from console, using the string instead of the
%variable. And you don't have to change settings all the time...

% evolution mailto:'test invalid'?subject='sub ject'

works for me.


> I've seen A LOT of people ask about this problem, but no one has ever
> explained just what the problem was. Once they got the %t working, they
> stopped looking. And thus I think this bug has gone unnoticed.

I am just for a couple of months on this list, but active reader and
poster -- and i never saw something like that.

You mean all that "how to set the default browser in Evo [running KDE]",
don't you? They aren't related...


> This is my 1st post to the evolution lists, so I don't know where to
> send bug reports but I figured this is a good a place to start as any.

As KDE user I really would be careful, before screaming "Gnome bug". ;-)

FWIW: There were just a couple of hours ago all KDE packages updates,
due to a bug in the console parameter handling -- a security hole even.
And you just pointed out to Gnome / Evolution console parameter
handling...


Hope the tip with the quote solves your problem.

...guenther


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