Bug 460173

Summary:	Can't send emails to TUI email clients when Konsole is not installed
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio	Reporter:	Moritz Poldrack <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	minor	CC:	kde, kdelibs-bugs-null, nate, nicolas.fella
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.99.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Moritz Poldrack 2022-10-09 17:24:15 UTC

When sharing a document via email without having Konsole installed, the sharing screen just disappears without any information.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. install skanpage
2. do not install konsole
3. scan something
4. Share > Email

OBSERVED RESULT
5. The Share-Screen goes away, the mail client has not been opened.

EXPECTED RESULT
5. something like `xdg-open mailto:?attach=/tmp/document.pdf` is executed which in turn opens the mail client

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.19.13/not applicable
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: not applicable
KDE Frameworks Version: not applicable (I think, otherwise: what package?)
Qt Version: 5.15.6

Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2022-10-09 19:19:56 UTC

What is the output of running "xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/mailto"?

Comment 2 Moritz Poldrack 2022-10-11 08:02:35 UTC

aerc.desktop

Comment 3 Moritz Poldrack 2022-10-11 10:31:36 UTC

(In reply to Moritz Poldrack from comment #2)
> aerc.desktop

Which is a TUI MUA running in a persistent terminal, which is sent the mailto: link to act upon it.

Comment 4 Nicolas Fella 2022-10-11 21:13:18 UTC

That's the important point, it's a terminal application (i.e. it has Terminal=true in its desktop file). That means it will be opened in the default terminal application (as defined in Plasma's system settings). If none is set then Konsole is used.

Comment 5 Nicolas Fella 2022-10-11 21:16:11 UTC

The config file for this is Plasma-specific, so if you are not using Plasma chances are it isn't set to anything and that's why it tries to use Konsole.

As of right now there isn't really a cross-desktop way to specify a default terminal. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_requests/46 aims to fix that

Comment 6 Moritz Poldrack 2022-10-16 07:05:54 UTC

> there isn't really a cross-desktop way to specify a default terminal

I don't know about the internals of Skanpage, but wouldn't it be preferable to let xdg-open (or whatever backend it's using) decide on what to do with it?

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2022-11-04 17:11:27 UTC

The code to do this lives in Purpose, which calls KIO::KEmailClientLauncherJob; moving there.