Thunderbird Indicator

Indicator fifopath should be relocated

Bug #611183 reported by Andreas Heinlein
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Thunderbird Indicator
Fix Committed
Low
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Bug Description

I noticed that indicator.py tries to create a fifo in the extension directory. This does not work if the extension is installed as a shared extension for all users, as is the case when you make an Ubuntu package of it. I suggest creating the fifo in /tmp instead.

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Adrien Cunin (adri2000) wrote :

Yep, confirmed. I'm not sure using /tmp/indicator-fifo would be a good idea actually: what if multiple users are using Thunderbird at the same time?

Changed in libnotify-mozilla:
status: New → Confirmed
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Ruben Verweij (ruben-verweij) wrote :

Thank you for your bug report. I didn't think of that, but it should indeed be relocated then. I think it is best to create it in /tmp then, with some kind of unique name for the Thunderbird profile that's being used. I will let you know once it's fixed.

Changed in libnotify-mozilla:
assignee: nobody → Ruben Verweij (ruben-verweij)
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Ruben Verweij (ruben-verweij) wrote :

I have committed a fix in trunk. The path looks like this now: /tmp/thunderbird.tbindicator.dev-fifo498, where '498' is a "random" number.

Changed in libnotify-mozilla:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
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Ruben Verweij (ruben-verweij) wrote :

Oh, and I forgot to mention: 'dev' is the name of the current profile.

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