Can't click on email links anymore

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/10/2010 01:56 PM, Duncan wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras posted on Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:59:27 +0300 as excerpted:
>
>> I lost the ability to click on "mailto:" links.  Either in Konqueror or
>> in other applications (the "About" box in Amarok, for example). Whenever
>> I click a link, I get an error box titled "Error - KIOExec" which says:
>> "Could not start process Can not find io-slave for protocol 'mailto'.."
>>
>> "Default Applications - Email Client" in System Settings is set-up
>> correctly.
>>
>> I'm on KDE 4.5.2, Gentoo AMD64.
>
> How familiar that last bit looks. =:^)

Heh, maybe I should make it a sig...


>[...]
> FWIW, I get two hits for:
> equery b -f '.*kmailservice.*':
>
> kde-base/kdelibs-4.5.2 (/usr/share/kde4/services/kmailservice.protocol)
> kde-base/kdelibs-4.5.2 (/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kmailservice)
>
> The first one is the config, the second a binary -- located in libexec, a
> directory designated for executables that are NOT intended to be directly
> run by the user and thus shouldn't be on the path.  Here's the contents of
> the *.protocol file:
>
> [Protocol]
> exec=kmailservice %u
>[...]
>
> Oh, just figured out something that works here!  Simply removing the %u in
> that exec line above, so it's just kmailservice, works!  I directly edited
> the system config file, then ran (in my existing kde session)
> kbuildsycoca4 to notify the running konquerors, etc, and tested, and it
> worked!

Worked here too.  Clicking on email links now correctly pops-up a 
Thunderbird mail compose window.  The right "To:" address is used, so I 
guess the "%u" in kmailservice.protocol in not needed at all for the 
mail client to receive the target address.

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