Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 190959
launchmail may open Evolution Contacts or Tasks instead
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:32 EST
Description of problem: The launchmail script opens the last used Evolution component, which may have been Contacts or Tasks, rather than the Email interface. The default desktop panel icon for email uses launchmail, and so users that open their Email in this way sometimes get the Contacts or Tasks instead. I think that the issue is that the launchmail script fetches the string "evolution" from the GConf key for mailto:, but Evolution nows requires "evolution --component=mail" to force loading the Email interface, rather than the defaulting to the last opened component. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): htmlview-3.0.0-14 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select Applications > Office > Contacts 2. Close Contacts 3. Click the Email panel icon, or run launchmail from a terminal window Actual results: Launchmail opens the "Contacts" interface. Expected results: Launchmail ought to open the "Email" interface. Additional info:
What happens if you click on a "mailto:" link?
Clicking a mailto: link in (the default Fedora) Firefox pops up both a "Compose Message" window, and the last opened Evolution component as well.
Has this behavior began in FC5, or has FC4 behaved like this? I suspect that this really is just a poor design problem of evolution. None of the other clients behave this way. We'll see what the evolution maintainer & project thinks.
From memory, I beleive that FC4 did the same thing.
See also bug #197868.
Hmm, Bug #197868 seems to have the acutal problem and solution in other components. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 197868 ***