1599924 - Messaging Menu and Unity Launcher integration broken in 68.2.1

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[Val Kulkov]

Attachment: manifest.json

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/78.0.3904.108 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Start Thunderbird 68.2.1 in Ubuntu 18.04. The error console displays the following:

Actual results:

Error while loading 'jar:file:///usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/[e-mail]!/manifest.json' (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) Extension.jsm:513
readJSON resource://gre/modules/Extension.jsm:513
onStopRequest resource://gre/modules/NetUtil.jsm:128
1574890113815 addons.xpi WARN Exception running bootstrap method startup on [e-mail]: Error: Error while loading 'jar:file:///usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/[e-mail]!/manifest.json' (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)(resource://gre/modules/Extension.jsm:513:20) JS Stack trace: readJSON/</<@Extension.jsm:513:20
[e-mail]:128:9

Expected results:

Apparently, [e-mail] add-on is missing manifest.json, which WebExtension API requires. As a result, the integration with Gnome messaging systray icon is broken.

Adding the attached manifest.json into the package xpi did not solve the problem. It appears that there is something else that prevents the messagingmenu add-on from functioning normally.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Unfortunately bugzilla is only for Thunderbird code, which the Unity addon is not.
You will want to ask addon questions at https://thunderbird.topicbox.com/groups/addons/

Comment 2

[Val Kulkov]

@:wsmwk : Hold on... this is not a Unity addon at all!

[e-mail] is part of "thunderbird" package in Ubuntu, enabling integration with Gnome.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Yes, my misunderstanding. Still, your answers will be found with people who help at topicbox and with the Ubuntu folk