No icons for attachment

Screen shot with a manual build of thunderbird

Screenshot of a gutsy thunderbird

At last we have found how to have these icons.

You have to compile thunderbird with the option --enable-image-decoders=icon,png,gif,jpeg,bmp AND install the package gnome-icon-theme

Hope it will help.

Hello,

The real fix is to replace this line (line 46 on the last gutsy build) :

DEB_DH_INSTALL_ARGS_thunderbird := -Xgnome -Ximgicon -Xmozlibthai

By this one :
DEB_DH_INSTALL_ARGS_thunderbird := -Xgnome -Xmozlibthai

Hope this will help !

Any news on this ? The screenshot with icons seems better.

I am having the same issue, Thunderbird does not show many attachment icons.

Please compile with the option --enable-image-decoders=icon,png,gif,jpeg,bmp AND install the package gnome-icon-theme when making the next Debian Package for the next version, and please upload a fixed copy to the repositories. Many ubuntu users are getting confused.

This still seems to be a problem with the latest version from the repos. Is it likely to be fixed anytime soon?

Charlie

I can report that the problem is still there. I use Linux Mint which is largely based on the Ubuntu repositories

How does one compile a .deb package from the source code? It sounds like the solution has been identified, the appropriate fixes just waiting to be compiled, but nobody's made the package yet.

Is it really that simple or is there more to it than that?

I think it really is this simple...

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-thunderbird/+bug/137221/comments/4

With Rémy-Christophe Schermesser having identified the change to be made here, can we simply patch and repackage Thunderbird? Is there a PPA with the patched package for Thunderbird >2.0.0.21+nobinonly-0ubuntu1?

I've tested the latest (beta) version. This is no longer an issue with:
thunderbird-3.0 3.0~b3~hg20090328r2299+nobinonly-0ubuntu1~umd2

This is available in the following PPA:
https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mozilla-daily/+archive/ppa

On 03/28/2009 12:58 PM, komputes wrote:
> I think it really is this simple...
>
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mozilla-
> thunderbird/+bug/137221/comments/4
>
> With Rémy-Christophe Schermesser having identified the change to be made
> here, can we simply patch and repackage Thunderbird? Is there a PPA with
> the patched package for Thunderbird >2.0.0.21+nobinonly-0ubuntu1?
>
This fix will not land on a stable release of Thunderbird since it is
not a security fix. yes you are correct it is fixed in 3.0

--
Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito
Linux User# 414246

"How can i get lost, if i have no where to go"
    -- Metallica from Unforgiven III

This will not land in 2.0

can you confirm that you dont have the thunderbird-gnome-support package installed if you see this issue?

The problem seems to be fixed (from my test) in Intrepid by installing the following two packages:
thunderbird 2.0.0.21+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1
thunderbird-gnome-support 2.0.0.21+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.10.1

thunderbird-gnome-support, which was not installed with thunderbird, seems to solve the issue and show the icons. I recommend modifying the thunderbird package install script to have it detect if gnome is installed, and if yes then install thunderbird-gnome-support. This would avoid installing -gnome-support unnecessaryly if you only have KDE/kubuntu or some other environment.

Whoa, there!

I have installed the thunderbird-gnome-support package, and verified the version as per the post above, but am still seeing the issue here with Intrepid.

Perhaps there's something else that's changed or installed, too?

Charlie

Fokker your bug is not the same. Do you have kde xfce gnome or what?
Either you have kde or you have a different bug. Please file a new bug on your issue and post the bug number here.

John

Why do you think the bug is different? I am using Gnome, 2.24.1. Let me know what the difference is, and I'll file a new bug with pleasure.

Cheers
Charlie

On 04/02/2009 01:23 PM, FokkerCharlie wrote:
> John
>
> Why do you think the bug is different? I am using Gnome, 2.24.1. Let
> me know what the difference is, and I'll file a new bug with pleasure.
>
> Cheers
> Charlie
>
If your bug was the same as this one -gnome-support would have fixed it.
Since you are using gnome nad it didnt fix it your problem lies
somewhere else. please report new bug report

--
Sincerely Yours,
    John Vivirito

https://launchpad.net/~gnomefreak
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnVivirito
Linux User# 414246

"How can i get lost, if i have no where to go"
    -- Metallica from Unforgiven III

looking into a different solution that doesnt require -gnome-support installed.

Moving to thunderbird package as this is a TB2+ issue.

This bug was fixed in the package thunderbird - 2.0.0.22+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1.nspr474

---------------
thunderbird (2.0.0.22+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu1.nspr474) karmic; urgency=low

  * security/stability update 2.0.0.22 (USN-782-1)
  * add patch to fix ftbfs with gcc 4.4 (s/elif/else/)
    - add debian/patches/ftbfs_gcc44_elif.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * fix LP: #345189 - thunderbird 2 treats pixel sized system fonts as
    if they were point sized, which causes for to HUGE fonts
    - add debian/patches/lp345189_absolute_font_sizing.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * fix LP: #137221 - thunderbird-gnome-support package required for
    gnome capabilities; the gnome parts were always loadable modules and
    fail to load gracefully if depends cannot be fulfilled anyway; in turn
    we ship gnome components in the main thunderbird package and apply a bit
    magic in debian/rules to strip the gnome related dependencies from it;
    on top of this thunderbird-gnome-support becomes an empty package which gets
    all the dependencies for convenience; the purpose of new gnome-support is
    hence to install all required depends; in order to add the required depends
    to the gnome-support package we introduce a new substvar "shlibs:GnomeShlibs"
    and refer to it in control
    - remove debian/thunderbird-gnome-support.install
    - update debian/rules
    - update debian/control
  * the change for LP: #137221 moves files from thunderbird-gnome-support to
    thunderbird package; adding Replaces to thunderbird package accordingly
    - update debian/control
  * fix LP: #145716 - panel launcher breaks on upgrade; we provide a
    compatibility link for the old mozilla-thunderbird binary
    - update debian/thunderbird.links
  * drop not used control.in from debian/ dir
    - remove debian/control.in
  * pick up latest nspr (>= 4.7.4) to potentially fix armel build (LP: #385325)
    - update debian/control

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:02:03 +0200