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Bug#964846: reportbug-gtk: mua xdg-email: does not work with the GTK UI

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On Sat, 2020-07-11 at 18:20 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:

> Someone (probably Paul Wise? I lost track of the attribution) wrote:
> > > BTW, I think the GTK UI should not be running the MUAs under a VTE
> > > terminal unless the MUA is marked as needing a terminal. Same for any
> > > other commands it runs under a VTE terminal. For xdg-email probably
> > > most of the commands that runs don't need a terminal.

Yes, that was me.

> It might be safer to build a corresponding mailto:
> URI (which is desktop-agnostic and can be done in
> pure Python), and then pass it to whatever is the Python
> binding for g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri_async() (probably
> Gio.AppInfo.launch_default_for_uri_async() or similar).

I suggest adding that as a separate MUA to the xdg-email MUA and when
running with the reportbug GTK UI, make that new MUA the default MUA,
since people not using a terminal are even less likely to want
reportbug to submit to an MTA directly than most reportbug users.

> with 100% less shell script

Sadly, gio still uses a shell script to launch MUAs:

$ strace -f -e trace=execve gio open mailto:foo@bar.com |& grep execve | grep -v ENOENT
execve("/usr/bin/gio", ["gio", "open", "mailto:foo@bar.com"], 0x7ffcbf1e3a88 /* 96 vars */) = 0
[pid 1476622] execve("/bin/sh", ["/bin/sh", "-e", "-u", "-c", "export GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE"..., "sh", "evolution", "mailto:foo@bar.com"], 0x558b45966000 /* 97 vars */) = 0
execve("/usr/bin/evolution", ["evolution", "mailto:foo@bar.com"], 0x5607406853f8 /* 98 vars */) = 0

> there is no generic mechanism to choose a per-user or per-desktop
> preferred terminal emulator

This seems like something that should get added to xdg-utils?

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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Bug#964846: reportbug-gtk: mua xdg-email: does not work with the GTK UI Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2020-07-11 03:50 +0200
  Bug#964846: reportbug-gtk: mua xdg-email: does not work with the GTK UI Nis Martensen <nis.martensen@web.de> - 2020-07-11 10:10 +0200
    Bug#964846: reportbug-gtk: mua xdg-email: does not work with the GTK UI Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2020-07-11 11:40 +0200
      Bug#964846: reportbug-gtk: mua xdg-email: does not work with the GTK UI Nis Martensen <nis.martensen@web.de> - 2020-07-11 12:40 +0200
        Bug#964846: reportbug-gtk: mua xdg-email: does not work with the GTK UI Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2020-07-11 19:30 +0200
          Bug#964846: reportbug-gtk: mua xdg-email: does not work with the GTK UI Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2020-07-12 02:50 +0200
            Bug#964846: reportbug-gtk: mua xdg-email: does not work with the GTK UI Nis Martensen <nis.martensen@web.de> - 2020-07-12 10:20 +0200
            Bug#964846: reportbug-gtk: mua xdg-email: does not work with the GTK UI Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2020-07-12 21:30 +0200
      Re: reportbug-gtk: mua xdg-email: does not work with the GTK UI Nis Martensen <nis.martensen@web.de> - 2020-07-13 01:20 +0200

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