624955 - StartupWMClass Tags Messed Up

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu/10.10 Chromium/8.0.552.224 Chrome/8.0.552.224 Safari/534.10
Build Identifier: 3.1.8pre

The PPA/added repo version of Thunderbird, code named Shredder, is not properly set up with the .desktop files that certain applications in Linux use. As a result, it makes it a major headache to use applications like Thunderbird. I spoke to several developers with fixes for this, but this problem stems from Mozilla. The stable releases that come pre-packaged with distributions such as Ubuntu work absolutely fine, but the PPA/repo versions that update frequently do not. Can this be fixed so things are more seamless for everybody?

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
Happens every time unless I go back in and edit certain config files.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

I believe this is INVALID for bmo, but I'm not sure. Crhis can you confirm that the issue is Ubuntu packaging only ?

Comment 2

[Chris Coulson]

Yes, this is because we hard-code StartupWMClass in the desktop file to "Thunderbird". For the Firefox packaging, we automatically populate it with the correct name at build time, based on the branding being built. I need to update the Thunderbird packaging to do the same thing as well so that the nightlies work properly.