[Evolution] Evolution external editor

[Ralf Mardorf <ralf mardorf rocketmail com>]

Hi :)

regarding to an issue [1] I tried to use an external editor as a
workaround. Btw. it's available by default for Arch's Evolution 3.8.3
[2].

Unfortunately it doesn't work. It will open Evolution's editor window
and when starting editing, it opens Gedit. When finished the message
written in Gedit is shown by Evolution's editor window, but I neither
can edit the mail addresses, nor can I send it using the existing
address, if I reply. I can't close Evolution's editor window, even
killall evolution doesn't work, I have to killall -9 evolution.

Regards,
Ralf

[1]
Likely that it doesn't pass list moderation. Reporting issues with Arch
Linux usually is rejected by the list moderator, many other list users
already were banned :D.

From: Ralf Mardorf
To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general archlinux org>
Subject: Broken mouse behaviour for Evolution
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:44:08 +0200

Hi,

there's an issue for Evolution 3.8.3-1, that seems to be caused by a
dependency. From one day to the other using the mouse to mark text
doesn't work anymore, resp. it does work for a very short while, if you
close and open Evolution. Sometimes even clicking a folder or menu will
mark something else, but not chose the folder oder open the menu.

This issue only happens for Evolution, the mouse does work for all other
applications as it should do.

FWIW current message from Evolution, seems to be just the one I usually
get:
"(evolution:1272): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files"

Any ideas what I need to fix?

As a workaround, until I found another MUA that fit to my needs, I'll
use the external editor plugin
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ev/evolution-plugins-experimental/evolution-plugins-experimental.tar.gz .

If somebody want to use it too, it's outdated, here's the diff.

$ diff PKGBUILD PKGBUILD.original
5c5
< pkgver=3.8.3
---
> pkgver=3.4.4
15c15
< sha256sums=('b0ee1eae5f4752eeb0b62c3be2daa08195ab4fd19092bfe6e75d02ac457ebe3a')
---
> sha256sums=('7e541d0894c1d48b89820b6466edafe40215f8cdb45b1c0e9635cc15f49ecb9a')
27,28c27
<       --disable-image-inline \
<       --disable-text-highlight
---
>       --disable-image-inline

I don't know if this will work, it's still compiling.

Regards,
Ralf

[2]
"Comment by Ralf_Mardorf 2013-06-25 10:10

This package isn't needed anymore, however, the current diff is

$ diff PKGBUILD PKGBUILD.original
5c5
< pkgver=3.8.3
---
> pkgver=3.4.4
15c15
< sha256sums=('b0ee1eae5f4752eeb0b62c3be2daa08195ab4fd19092bfe6e75d02ac457ebe3a')
---
> sha256sums=('7e541d0894c1d48b89820b6466edafe40215f8cdb45b1c0e9635cc15f49ecb9a')
27,28c27
< --disable-image-inline \
< --disable-text-highlight
---
> --disable-image-inline

I haven't seen that it's already included, when I checked the available plugins :D.

$ sudo pacman -U evolution-plugins-experimental-3.8.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
evolution-plugins-experimental: /usr/lib/evolution/3.8/plugins/liborg-gnome-external-editor.so exists in 
filesystem
evolution-plugins-experimental: /usr/lib/evolution/3.8/plugins/org-gnome-external-editor.eplug exists in 
filesystem
evolution-plugins-experimental: /usr/share/evolution/3.8/errors/org-gnome-external-editor.error exists in 
filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded." - 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/evolution-plugins-experimental/