xdg-email fails to execute thunderbird.desktop properly

[rick beldin]

Kubuntu users who use thunderbird as their default mailer will not be able to open mailto: links in html pages. This appears to be a KDE-specific bug from the notes upstream.

This issue has been fixed upstream, but the fixes are not yet in:

  ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1ubuntu3~22.04.1 all desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org

The upstream commit is:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/issues/187

I verified that the changes in the /usr/bin/xdg-email script listed above address the issue.

After applying the code changes, chrome is now able to open mailto links to launch thunderbird.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Rickard Westman (rwestman)]

I can confirm the existence of the bug and that applying the linked upstream commit (three lines added to the xdg-email shellscript) fixed the problem for me.