Bug 306238

Summary:	Thunderbird compose mail window opens on wrong activity
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Gábor Katona <katonag>
Component:	Activity Switcher sidebar	Assignee:	Ivan Čukić <ivan.cukic>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	a.croucher, chanika, david001, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.8.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Gábor Katona 2012-09-04 09:13:34 UTC

When Thunderbird is set to all activities, and a new mail is started, the composition window doesn't appear also on all activities (which wouldn't be an issue alone), but additionally it first appears on the activity where the last composition window was opened. Opening another composition window without closing the previous one opens on the correct activity. After this, if you close this second window (On activity #2), then close the first one (which is on a different activity #1), than an new composition window will now appear on activity #2, regardless which activity you are on.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Start Thunderbird
2. Set it to all activities
3. Select an arbitrary activity (e.g. #2) and select Write, to start a new message. The new mail window appears on this activity
4. Close the compose window
5. Go to activity #1 and select Write again. The Compose window doesn't appear, but you can find it on activity #2.
6. Open another Compose window on activity #1. It appears here.

7a. Close Compose window first on activity #2, than on activity #1
8a. Selecting write on activity #1 will result in a window on activity #2

7b. Now after step 6 close Compose window first on activity #1, than on #2
8b. Selecting Write on activity #1 results in the expected behaviour: window on activity #1
9b. Close it and go to activity #2. Try to open a compose window. It will open on activity #1.

10. Repeating 7b with the logical changes will always change the activity where the first window shows.

Using TB 15.0, but this bug is here since activities appeared, and I think it is activities related, not TB related, because TB simply opens a new window, which for some reason doesn't inherit its parents settings.

Comment 1 Adrian Croucher 2013-08-02 00:22:42 UTC

A workaround is to right-click on the title bar of the Thunderbird compose window, and from Activities, check 'All activities'.  Then when you open a compose window on any activity, it stays there rather than appearing on a different activity.  (Tested on Debian Wheezy, KDE 4.8.4).

Comment 2 Gábor Katona 2016-12-09 17:04:57 UTC

This bug is still present in KDE Plasma 5.8.4, Frameworks 5.28.0, using Opensuse Tumbleweed with Thunderbird 45.5.1

Comment 3 Ivan Čukić 2017-01-02 10:14:11 UTC

This is not a bug we can fix. Thunderbird does not support activities, and it does not set the main window to be the parent of the compose window, so the window goes to the current activity.

I would advise to force all thunderbird windows always to be on all activities (via window rules).