Description of problem: Thunderbird ships with a mozilla-thunderbird.desktop with an Exec line that does not pass any URL to the thunderbird binary. This means that when selecting Thunderbird as a preferred application, clicking on an email address (or using gvfs-open) would launch Thunderbird, but not trigger the compose window. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): thunderbird-3.1.9-6.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select Thunderbird as default mail app 2. gvfs-open foo Actual results: Thunderbird launches (if not already started); no compose window Expected results: Thunderbird launches (if not already started); compose window pre-filled with address Additional info:
Created attachment 490799 [details] Patch to .desktop file also fixes this uncommented occurence of %{_lib} in %changelog
I've pushed your two fixes as individual commits to master and f15, but haven't yet done a build, wanted to get a few other things looked at first.
Fixed in thunderbird-3.1.9-7.fc15 and above