GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 617419
Clicking on email addresses no longer opens composer window
Last modified: 2010-06-05 16:26:41 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?
Downstream bug resolved as NOTABUG, doing the same here.
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.
It sounds like a configuration issue on your system, not a software bug. Perhaps gnome-session or gnome-settings-daemon needs to be running.