Re: [Evolution] evolution and wine (and other plugins)

[Eugene <eugene bct bz>]

If evolution is started before firefox then
/usr/lib/nspluginwrapper/npviewer.bin becomes a child of evolution.

On Fri, 2015-07-03 at 05:45 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 14:41 -0400, Eugene Kanter wrote:
> > The dialog means that evolution somehow triggers wine libraries 
> > use. 
> > My question is where is the possible connection because I would 
> > like 
> > to remove it. I don't see a valid reason for evolution to depend 
> > and/or call wine libraries.
>
>       Hi,
> there is no direct connection between wine and evolution, neither in
> build time, nor in run time. They are independent projects.
>
> One thing I can think of are browser plugins. Evolution uses 
> WebKitGTK+
> for message rendering (and composing since 3.16.0). To not use any
> random installed browser plugins evolution asks webkit for the list 
> of
> available plugins and disables them all. Some of them print 
> information
> on console. If you have any wine-related browser plugin, then its
> discovery can trigger its load and that can call the wine routines.
>
> If the wine configuration takes long enough you can catch a backtrace
> of the evolution, where could be seen what it does in that time. It's
> not 100% sure, though. You might have installed debuginfo package for
> evolution at least to get any reasonable backtrace. The command can
> look like this:
>    $ gdb --batch --ex "t a a bt" -pid=`pidof evolution` &>bt.txt
> I would not share the backtrace anywhere, but if you'll be unsure, 
> then
> please check the bt.txt for any private information, like passwords,
> email address, server addresses,... I usually search for "pass" at
> least (quotes for clarity only).
>       Bye,
>       Milan
>
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