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Bug 617419 - Clicking on email addresses no longer opens composer window
Clicking on email addresses no longer opens composer window
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
2.30.x (obsolete)
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-05-02 09:25 UTC by Christoph Wickert
Modified: 2010-06-05 16:26 UTC
See Also:
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Description Christoph Wickert 2010-05-02 09:25:19 UTC
Forwarded from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=588023

Description of problem:
Clicking on email addresses in evolution no longer in F13/evolution 2.30.0 if you are not using the GNOME desktop but KDE, Xfce, LXDE, whatever.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-2.30.0-3.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start evolution 2.30.0
2. click on an email address, ether in the header or the body of a mail
  
Actual results:
An error message appears: "Could not open the link. The specified location is not supported."

Expected results:
Composer window should be opened, not matter what desktop environment you are running.

Additional info:
Both Gnome and the other desktops are set to use evolution for composing email:
$ gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/mailto/command
evolution --component=mail %s
$ cat ~/.config/xfce4/helpers.rc 
MailReader=evolution
$ cat ~/.config/libfm/pref-apps.conf 
[Preferred Applications]
WebBrowser=mozilla-firefox.desktop
MailClient=evolution.desktop
$ grep evolution ~/.kde/share/config/emaildefaults 
EmailClient[$e]=evolution %U

I can compose mail by clicking on an address in the Xfce Terminal or gnome-terminal. Everything works fine, it's just evolution that doesn't work.

I wonder if this is related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=525449. I thought evolution >= 2.28 was using gtk_show_uri to open URLs, has this changed again in 2.30?
Comment 1 Matthew Barnes 2010-05-30 05:02:01 UTC
Downstream bug resolved as NOTABUG, doing the same here.
Comment 2 Christoph Wickert 2010-06-05 16:17:26 UTC
The downstream bug was closed incorrectly. It definitely is a bug, even if it may not be in evolution. I asked you for the the proper component in the downstream bug report which is in NEEDINFO for weeks now.

Please tell me the proper component so we can get this fixed, evo still suffers from this bug.
Comment 3 Matthew Barnes 2010-06-05 16:26:41 UTC
It sounds like a configuration issue on your system, not a software bug.  Perhaps gnome-session or gnome-settings-daemon needs to be running.