287521 - Thunderbird should respond to session save requests

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 508986

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Christian Wolf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050311 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050227)

I'm using Gnome. When I quit my session and check the mark "Save changes to
session", all programs get a notification to save their state to be able to
restore it when I log in again. Thunderbird does not honor this request.

This would be a nice feature, allowing me to place TB on a specific (virtual)
desktop.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Pierre]

I agree this would be a nice feature.
Couldn't this be reopened ?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

reopening

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

is there comparable function in firefox?  should we confirm this?

Comment 6

[Jason Oster (:Parasyte)]

I did a real quick test on this; Firefox starts up when logging in with GNOME Session Manager enabled.  Thunderbird does not start up (that's probably this bug) but TB does save its own session, e.g. all tabs are reopened when TB is manually started.

If it's the case that Thunderbird needs to explicitly respond to the Session Manager requests, than I say CONFIRMED.  I have no idea how it's currently handled by Firefox.

More info: http://live.gnome.org/SessionManagement/

Comment 7

[Nir]

I have also tested this bug in both Gnome and Kde and found problem in both - firefox is automatically reopened on next login but Thunderbird is not lunched.

I tried to analysis this issue and found following:

When you log out from system, Session management will create an entry/file for running application. It does same for Thunderbird.

In Gnome: /home/<user name>/.config/gnome-session/saved-session
In KDE: /home/nir/.kde/share/config/session

Both entry logged 'command' for Thunderbird process as 'thunderbird-bin'. But similar entry for Firefox logs command as 'firefox'.

In linux, 'firefox command can open up firefox but 'thunderbird-bin' command can't do same for Thunderbird. it should be 'thunderbird'.

I'm attaching two session files that will demonstrate the issue.

Comment 8

[Nir]

Attachment: Thunderbird Session file (Gnome)

Comment 9

[Nir]

Attachment: Firefox Session (Gnome)

Comment 10

[Nir]

Attachment: Thunderbird Session file (KDE)

Comment 11

[Nir]

Attachment: Firefox Session File (KDE)

Comment 12

[Orion Poplawski]

This should be fixed in most cases by MOZ_APP_LAUNCHER being set in the application launcher script /usr/bin/thunderbird (see bug 453689).  I'm still seeing an issue with "restore saved session" functionality (as opposed to restoring session as it was on logout), see bug 609635.

Comment 13

[Orion Poplawski]

Fix actually appears to be in bug 508986, this probably should be closed as a dupe.