Packages on which Thunderbird functionality depends!
For the past week or so I have been battling with a problem that I had
thought (after some chasing around) was a Thunderbird upstream
problem. The issue was that selecting Edit->Preferences-> General and
allowing selection of a xxx.wav file to play for incoming mail did not
work.
It turned out that in fact the reason was there were two required
packages (pulseaudio-esound-compat and esound-libs) that were needed
for Thunderbird to function with sound and play these sounds. Whilst
it would be highly desirable for upstream to move from the now
obsolete esd sound system to pulse, in the meantime we are stuck with
thunderbird as it is. However it took quite a lot of searching to
find the two packages necessary (which are not installed by default),
and I wonder if it would be possible to make those two packages a
dependency for thunderbird so that others don't hit the same bug.
Certainly an inexperienced Fedora user would most likely not be able
to resolve this for a standard installed set of packages!
The upstream bug where this was sorted out is at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589732
It seems that for some other distributions the necessary packages are
there by default.
Any views on this? Could it be done for f14?
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mike c