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 bug 525449. I thought evolution >= 2.28 was using gtk_show_uri to open URLs, has this changed again in 2.30?
Forwarded upstream as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=617419
That error message usually means you don't have the GVFS daemon running. We still use gtk_show_uri(), but that function simply forwards the request to GIO, and GIO relies on the GVFS daemon to process mailto URIs.
gvfs-daemon is running: $ ps -A | grep gvfs 3854 ? 00:00:00 gvfsd 3874 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-fuse-daemo 4023 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-gdu-volume 4030 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-gphoto2-vo 4032 ? 00:00:00 gvfs-afc-volume 4162 ? 00:00:00 gvfsd-http
I just realized that it not only affects mailto links but also links to files. http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-10.04.iso.torrent http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-10.04.iso both do not work but return an error message appears: "Could not open the link. No application is registered as handling this file" Of course there are apps registered for iso or torrent files, I can open them locally just fine by clicking on them, even in nautilus running under Xfce. I can open them fro any other application but not from evolution. URLs like http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/ however can be opened from evo.
Closing as NOTABUG since the issue is external to Evolution.
Please tell me the proper component so I can file a bug. Even better: Assign it to the correct component yourself. TIA!
Reopening to hopefully get the requested info.
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Fixed in F14 and F15 while F13 is still broken.