Description of problem: xdg-email doesn't open mailto links when thunderbird is set as the default, but xdg-open works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): $ rpm -qi xdg-utils Name : xdg-utils Version : 1.1.3 Release : 9.fc34 Architecture: noarch How reproducible: 100% of the time Steps to Reproduce: 1. xdg-email 'First Last <email>' Actual results: $ xdg-email 'First Last <email>' /usr/bin/xdg-email: line 619: mozilla-thunderbird.desktop: command not found Expected results: thunderbird should open. Additional information: xdg-open works fine when passed mailto uris in the command line, but Chrome is trying to use xdg-email which makes mailto links not work.
Can confirm this issue, when using KDE as the Desktop. It appears that under Gnome3, xdg-email will call "desktop_file_to_binary" in order to translate from the ".desktop" file to the actual binary listed within it (/usr/bin/thunderbird), and as it does when using "open_generic()". Under KDE, however, "open_kde()" does not do this translation, and so it tries to execute the actual ".desktop" file itself (which is what makes this fail).
An upstream bug for this does exist: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/issues/187
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Can confirm that this is an issue in Fedora 35, I just do not have sufficient privileges to edit the ticket to update the "version" to note that.
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