Public bug reported: Installing evolution-plugins-experimental, which contains the external editor plugin does nothing when opening a new message (with or without the "Automatically launch when a new mail is edited" check box being set. The Gnome wiki says "If Automatically launch when a new mail is edited is not set, you need to select File ▸ Compose in External Editor in the mail composer." This File option does not exist.
As an aside, the contacts-map plugin, claimed to exist in this package does not exist at all. ~ $ dpkg -L evolution-plugins-experimental /. /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/evolution /usr/lib/evolution/plugins /usr/lib/evolution/plugins/liborg-gnome-external-editor.so /usr/lib/evolution/plugins/org-gnome-external-editor.eplug /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/evolution-plugins-experimental /usr/share/doc/evolution-plugins-experimental/copyright /usr/share/doc/evolution-plugins-experimental/changelog.Debian.gz ~ $ dpkg -s evolution-plugins-experimental Package: evolution-plugins-experimental Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: gnome Installed-Size: 69 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Architecture: amd64 Source: evolution Version: 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcamel-1.2-61 (>= 3.28.5), libevolution (>= 3.28.5), libevolution (<< 3.29), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.46.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), evolution (= 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) Description: experimental plugins for Evolution Evolution is a groupware suite which integrates mail, calendar, address book, to-do list and memo tools. . This package includes plugins for Evolution. The plugins belong to the set of "experimental" plugins, which are unsupported, have undergone little testing, and might cause problems to the rest of Evolution. Use with care. . The following plugins are included. - external-editor - contacts-map Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers <pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: evolution-plugins-experimental 3.28.5-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.3.0-26.28~18.04.1-generic 5.3.13 Uname: Linux 5.3.0-26-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Tue Jan 21 07:40:34 2020 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-22 (243 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20190210) SourcePackage: evolution UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) ** Affects: evolution (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1860374 Title: External Editor plugin does not open external editor To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/1860374/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
