thunderbird-gnome-support contains only docs?

[Dominik George]

Binary package hint: thunderbird-gnome-support

The package thunderbird-gnome-support should provide GNOME integration for Thunderbird. However, this package does not deliver the desired software as it contains only documentation files:

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root@portux:~# dpkg -L thunderbird-gnome-support
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/thunderbird-gnome-support
/usr/share/doc/thunderbird-gnome-support/copyright
/usr/share/doc/thunderbird-gnome-support/changelog.Debian.gz
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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Aug 3 23:01:29 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: thunderbird-gnome-support 2.0.0.22+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-4.23-generic
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-4-generic x86_64

[kimus (kimus)]

I found this now also. The menus in thunderbird are not integrated (or ugly) with gnome and I installed this package to see if something happen differently then I found that the package is... empty?!!

[Mustapha Mond (mustaphamond)]

I also hoped that this package would solve my problem. I cannot directly access network shares but have to use ~/.gvfs/ to add or save an attachment on a samba share.

Does anyone know if this is a thunderbird bug or an Ubuntu bug? Even though quite a lot of people seem to have this problem noone has come up with a solution yet.

[ignasi (igp-oenus)]

This has been an issue forever. I hoped that with the release of thunderbird 3 gvfs support would be available. Yesterday I was checking Claws Mail and it supports gvfs!!! So, the best looking, best imap-supporting, and best featured email application for Linux just sucks because it does not integrate well with the desktop environment. No wonder how Evolution is the default email client in Ubuntu.

[Mark Stosberg (markstos)]

I would like to see these improvements as well, but I think this bug should have the Importance updated to be something like "Wishlist". The current thunderbird-gnome-support package doesn't doesn't attempt to use GVFS, etc, making it an enhancement rather than a bug.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Dominik,
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with Thunderbird.

You made this bug report in 2009 and there have been several versions of Ubuntu and Thunderbird since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the ticket?
Or, if it is still a problem, could you run the following (only once):
apport-collect 408583

and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu and Thunderbird better.

G

[Dominik George (natureshadow)]

The bug still exists, and has for the last 9 years.

If you had read the bug description, you would have find out that everything you posted is irrelevant. Simply look at any of the file listings of the package, e.g. https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/thunderbird-gnome-support/filelist .

Why should I generate any sort of collected report when the bug is that the package in fact contains only two text files instead of the real content of the package?

Also, I cannot generate such a report as I have long moved away from Ubuntu - among other shortcomings due to such awkward bugs noone cares about.

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks for the feedback, Dominik. Sorry about that. I was using the standard bug report response for old tickets. Thanks for updating the ticket status.
Take care and have a great day.
:)
G

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

thunderbird-gnome-support has dependencies which are currently:

apt depends thunderbird-gnome-support
thunderbird-gnome-support
  Depends: thunderbird (= 1:68.2.2+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1)
  Depends: libmessaging-menu0
  Depends: libunity9
 |Depends: libnotify4
  Depends: <libnotify1>

Is anything else needed to provide the required level of functionality in a GNOME environment?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for thunderbird (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]