gnome "send to" doesnt work if thunderbird is open in a different desktop

[Alessandro Ranaldi]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

First of all I am sorry for the grammar, I am Italian and do my best effort to write correctly. This means also I dont know how multiple desktops are called in original english ubuntu.

I don't remember if I had this problem before, because I think every time I used the "send to" function thunderbird was not open.

But today I tried to do it to a folder and also to an archive file, while thunderbird was opened in another desktop and the window of email sending did not show up. When I tried to close thunderbird, it worked.

Now, I dont know if the problem is in gnome, but perhaps there is some rule that cannot be followed while thunderbird is open, so gnome can't provide his function.

The useful infos
1) I am using ubuntu intrepid 8.10
2) the version of thunderbird is 2.0.0.19+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
3) I expected the window of creating email to be shown
4) The window didn't show up

Hope this is enough, if not, tell me and I'll provide more infos.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

I cannot reproduce this bug in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04. Could you please confirm whether this bug still affect you?

Also, I assume that when you say "multiple desktops", you refer to the the multiple desktop workspaces between which you move by using Ctrl+Alt+Left/Right.

[Alessandro Ranaldi (ciaolo)]

I can confirm the bug is solved. But now happens something strange... In send to dialog I can choose "Email (evolution)" but I don't have evolution installed. In fact, when I choose this I get a thunderbird new mail window, as it should be.

In ubuntu 8.10 I used to choose "Email (thunderbird)".

For multiple desktop workspaces, Bruno you are right.

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status . Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.

Alessandro, I created a new bug yesterday concerning the other problem you mention. See bug 381440.