GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 235022
Can't use evolution before you create a mail account.
Last modified: 2017-06-28 16:05:26 UTC
Description of Problem: Users can't use other components of Evolution before create a mail account. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. If you have mail accounts, delete all of them. 2. Start Evolution. 3. Exit the account setup wizard. Actual Results: Evolution exit. Expected Results: Can use other components of evolution, such as, calendar,tasks. How often does this happen? everytime Additional Information: I am not sure if this bug is evolution's style.
I have a feeling this is a wontfix
I'm guessing there are architectural limitations on this... Ettore?
*** bug 228399 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Ettore: ping?
still missing in evolution-2.0.2.0.200412060900-0.snap.ximian.10.1.
this is intentional. for a short time this was allowed, the startup wizard didn't exist. but jpr put it back in. so i guess we're stuck with it.
*** Bug 321705 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
"notabug" is ridiculous - if you only want to use the calendar, you don't need an email account. full stop. reopening.
Specially now that evolution is part of the gnome desktop and people uses the time/date applet to add events to the calendar
Bumping version to a stable release.
Any changes expected for 2.26 here? UAM? This makes using the panel calendar very intuitive.
Doesn't look like it. One thing I'd like to do for maybe 2.28 is move the appointment / task / memo editors into libedataserverui, so other EDS-aware apps or applets can use them. The clock applet, for instance, could let you edit an appointment without starting Evolution. That might partially address this issue.
For this Bug, UAM should help a bit. Even otherwise, we can setup a auto-default account for local/sendmail as default. Matt, we should move Editors to EDS, which has been in the plan for long time.
*** Bug 318212 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 641370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 657216 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Unfortunately, with gnome-shell clock's integration with calendar events, this problem only gets worse. One clicks on the "open calendar" button in the clock and is greeted by a completely non-intuitive wizard guiding him through his email set up. it is natural for the user to wonder what setting up his email has got to do with plotting events on the calendar. On numerous occasions, I have seen this throw off users from using the calendar at all. Yet it looks like the last anyone said anything about this bug (other than marking duplicates to it) was three years back! Would be very grateful for any work on this one. Thanks!
*** Bug 665983 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 735656 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I made some changes here: a) the new mail account wizard is shown only if the Mail view is shown b) there is a "Do not show this wizard again" checkbox c) Cancel of the wizard doesn't close evolution, but runs it without any mail account The last point required some consecutive changes, mainly in composer, to react on such state (no mail account to send with) gracefully, instead of showing runtime warnings on console and failing with requested operation silently. Created commit a3fa18f in evo master (3.25.4+)