On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Don Sanders wrote:

> I've forwarded this in case anyone wants to comment on it.
> 
> I don't have much to say, other than that I think kfm should handle this rather
> than the calling app, (that is like the old kfm). If sometime in the future a
> standard mail transfer API is created kfm can be updated to use it.

Just to let you know: There's no kfm anymore....
;-)

And I vote against putting a static "mailto:" hack into KRun.

Bye,
 Simon
 
> On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Espen Sand wrote:
> > 
> > > Earlier I did a kfm.openURL( "mailto:espensa@online.no" );
> > > to open kmail from the application.
> > > 
> > > When I try the new class KRun:
> > > new KRun(QString("mailto:espensa@online.no"));
> > > I get the messages:
> > > 
> > > Unknown protocol mailto
> > > kiolib (ProtocolManager): Protocol mailto not found
> > > Unknown protocol mailto
> > > 
> > > Is this protocol not yet implemented or should I do something else 
> > > to get this working?
> > 
> > The old kfm contained a short hack which filtered out "mailto:xyz" urls
> > and statically called kmail.
> > 
> > This hack (obviously) doesn't exist anymore.
> > 
> > I suggest calling kmail directly then
> > 
> > *or*
> > 
> > you could also wait for a standard mail transfer API on the long run.
> > 
> > Where are the kde-pim guys? ;-)
> > 
> 
> BFN,
> Don.
>