Re: [Evolution] Independant Compose window has disappeared ??

[William Case <billlinux rogers com>]

Hi;

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 15:52 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi Matthew;
>
> On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 14:18 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 13:01 -0400, William Case wrote:
> > > I have/had a launcher that was setup on my Gnome panel that used the
> > > command evolution --component=compose.  That command used to open the
> > > evolution compose window on any workspace as long as evolution was open
> > > on one of the workspaces.  It no longer works, opening an incomplete
> > > evolution window instead.
> >
> > Likely because the Composer no longer registers itself as an Evolution
> > component.  Why, I can't explain offhand.
> >
> > Is the version in your signature accurate?  You're using 2.12.3?
>
> Yes its Evolution 2.12.3 (so 'about' says).
>
> Yes it is likely that the Composer no longer registers itself as an
> Evolution component.  That is too bad.  I consider it a loss of a handy
> facility.  I had developed the habit of keeping Evolution open in one
> workspace, full screen, but got used to copying and pasting from other
> application windows such as OOo in other workspaces to the composer, in
> those other spaces, as I needed it.  I can still drag the Composer from
> my evo workspace to other spaces so I should be able to open the
> Composer in those other spaces.
>
> The loss of the composer is not a deal breaker, but it was handy just to
> click on a panel icon and pop open the email composer window when I
> wanted to copy something to email.

For those who might be interested I have filed a bug on this Composer
issue.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=533700


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Regards Bill