ViewScene bug report: unencoded # likely cuts the mail body short

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Issue type
Bug
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Clearly specified
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Tech stack
cpp
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Read src/Interface/Modules/Render/ViewScene.cc around lines 3339 and 3369 to follow how sendBugReport builds and opens the mailto: URL. Use QUrlQuery to encode the body, then click the button in a real mail client and confirm the template and system information lines arrive intact.

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Description

Bug

sendBugReport builds a mailto: string and passes it straight to QUrl (src/Interface/Modules/Render/ViewScene.cc:3369). The body text contains #, starting with "## For bugs..." (src/Interface/Modules/Render/ViewScene.cc:3339), so everything after the first # should parse as a URL fragment rather than body text. That would drop the template and the GPU, Qt, GL and version lines, leaving only the request to attach a screenshot.

Read from the code; not tested against a mail client. Found while working on #2022, which covers the rest of this button.

Steps
  1. Build the URL with QUrlQuery so that the body is encoded.
  2. Click the button in one real mail client and confirm the system info lines arrive.

Found while refreshing old issues. Drafted by Claude Code and checked against master at 390335ce8; "I" above means the agent, not the account posting this.

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