[oclug] Sylpheed and konq.

[Joe Burpee]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 19:21:30 -0400, Shad Young wrote:
> By come out wrong I mean the right fields in the composer are selected
> but none of the values are being passed properly and looks somethign
> like this:
> 
> to:shad at ascenadnt.ca
> cc:c
> bcc:b
> subject:s
> body:B
> 
> Now if I put %t in the string for each field I get
> 
> to:shad at ascenadnt.ca
> cc:shad at ascenadnt.ca
> bcc:shad at ascenadnt.ca
> subject:shad at ascenadnt.ca
> body:shad at ascenadnt.ca
> 
> so we know its filling in the right fields (I tried them one at a time)
> but the "%var" is meaningless to sylpheed... I suspect its a program
> limitation of sylpheed as I tried every letter in the alphabet and the
> only one that seems to pass an sort of meaningful variable is "%t"
 
I don't think you can blame Sylpheed since the token substitution should
be done (and done carefully) by konq.  I saw something recently about a
KDE bug, but I'm not sure it applies to 3.1.  E.g. the only thing I can
see at the moment is http://www.willamowius.de/kde_email.html

Joe