gtimelog defaults require suggested packages

[Pat Double]

Binary package hint: gtimelog

There are defaults in gtimelog ($HOME/.gtimelog/gtimelogrc) that cause functionality to not work on "standard" installs of 8.04. The examples I have are:

mailer = x-terminal-emulator -e mutt -H %s
editor = gvim

I think the "editor" should be "editor" since this alternative is managed by Ubuntu and is set to something that exists. "gvim" is not installed by default nor do I intend to install it.

For "mailer", "mutt" is not installed by default. It would be good to use evolution since this is installed by default. I have not figured out how to tell evolution --component=mail to include the file argument %s as the message body, but I'm sure some else can.

With the current defaults the "edit timelog.txt" function does not work and the daily reports do not work.

Ubuntu 8.04

[Jon Dowland (jond)]

sensible-editor would be the right choice for editor, but evolution is as bad a choice as mutt, really. I guess we need a "sensible-email-client".

[puccha (yuri-schaeffer)]

Until this is properly fixed I *strongly* suggest to add mutt as a dependency on this package.

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

There was a suggestion for using xdg-email in the other bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtimelog/+bug/248612/comments/5

[Marius Gedminas (mgedmin)]

I've been slowly (oh so slowly) working on fixing this in the upcoming 0.11 version:

- editing timelog.txt will use the MIME types subsystem to pick the preferred text editor (you can change it with e.g. Nautilus)
- viewing/editing reports will be built in
- sending the report will require a local MTA (/usr/sbin/sendmail)

The last part about requiring a local MTA may be suboptimal, and I'm considering adding direct SMTP support (currently leaning against it because more features = more work for me and more opportunities for bugs; user feedback could change my mind).