1752195 - Thunderbird improperly sets itself as default application on Linux

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1637575

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[nicolas.fella]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:96.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/96.0

Steps to reproduce:

Go to Preferences > General > System Integration > Check Now

Set Thunderbird as default EMail app

Actual results:

Thunderbird creates the file ~/.local/share/applications/userapp-Thunderbird-SW8RG1.desktop

and writes "x-scheme-handler/mailto=userapp-Thunderbird-SW8RG1.desktop" to ~/.config/mimeapps.list

This causes KDE Plasma to have two "Thunderbird" entries in its default applications settings, one in /usr/share/applications (this one is added by distributions in their packaging) and a differently named one in .local/share/applications. See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421582

Expected results:

• Thunderbird should ship a .desktop file itself (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1637575)

• When setting itself as the default application Thunderbird should change ~/.config/mimeapps.list to point to the desktop file in /usr/share/applications and not create a new desktop file

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Going to dupe this to bug 1637575. We can't fix something we don't ship.