Does Fedora have a technical expertise oriented SIG?

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Sun Nov 2 15:34:39 UTC 2014


[replies to the list please!]

On Sun, 2 Nov 2014 10:10:57 -0500, you wrote:

> As for the background, it had started with Firefox hardcoding /var/tmp as
> its temporary directory. Obviously, starting applications from within
> Firefox made them run in an environment different than when started on the
> desktop.

This refers to: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/956380

To sum up, with a default install of Fedora, if one configures Claws Mail
as email program, runs Firefox and clicks on a "mailto:" link, Claws Mail
gets a different temporary directory than when starting it within the
GNOME Shell directly.


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