Help Needed: thunderbird-0.5 and other stuff

[Jaap A. Haitsma]

Hi,

I have 2 scripts which do the trick for me. (They maybe do not fullfill
all the requirements of Warren, but could be a starter)
They are located at
http://ftp.haitsma.org/mozilla-scripts/
Note that the firefox script is still called firebird. I already changed
this at my home pc but did not upload it yet. Will do this tonight

> https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1113
>
> Firefox and Thunderbird are the KILLER combination.  fedora.us Extras
> firefox-0.8 was released last week, but we still need your help in order
> to get the thunderbird-0.5 into acceptable release shape.  My personal
> time is too short to devote to this package now.
>
> The last remaining blocking is probably a complete rewrite of the
> /usr/bin/thunderbird script so the following requirements are met:
>
> 1) It must launch first time without problems while mozilla or firefox
> is running.

This works in my script. Though I think you still cannot run thunderbird
when the mozilla suite is running. As you already mentioned for that
mozilla needs to be patched.


> 2) It must not pop-up that ugly error message when you attempt to launch
> it while it is already running.  Ideally it should pop-up the already
> running thunderbird session if it is launched again.  Read the recent
> bugzilla entries about the broken xremote behavior to see why this is a
> challenge.

My script does not launch another session just makes the current session
come to the foreground. (Unfortunately this does not work if you are on
another desktop :-( )

My script doesn't use xremote



> 3) It must not have that ugly lock-file that can get "stuck" after a
> crash or unexpected reboot.

Doesn't the mozilla code create this lock-file. In that case it seems like
there's not much we can do. You can only delete the lock file if it's
there and the mozilla app didn't start up yet.

> 4) It must be able to launch a composer window from both a state where
> thunderbird is not yet running, and thunderbird is already running.
> Again this is a challenge because xremote is broken.

This works fine in my script.

> 5) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109738#c6
> It must integrate with the defaults set by the Preferred Applications
> chooser as set by control-center after this patch above.  I aim for this
> patch to eventually go into both upstream control-center and FC2, which
> should make the "Preferred Applications does not work" problem largely
> go away in many applications like htmlview, evolution, and a few others.
>   A few other packages need simple patches for this to behave properly
> though.

This also works for me with my scripts

> I highly suspect that after the above requirements are met, firefox-0.8
> and thunderbird-0.5 will Just Work(TM) together and be nicely integrated
> into the desktop.  After this is ready, I hope to have a nicely
> illustrated guide with graphics explaining the simple installation
> procedure for FC1 and FC2 (just install two RPMS from Extras), set the
> Preferred Applications, and suddenly Linux desktop nirvana.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114524
> Also note that the above firefox & thunderbird pair will work together,
> while mozilla will be painful with thunderbird without this patch.  I
> really hope for this patch to be applied before FC2, but I promised
> someone that I would never bug him directly about this anymore.  I urge
> others to politely ask him instead. <evil grin>
>

Hope this will help

Jaap