notifications aren't clickable on KDE

[mjgritli]

Dear Mozilla/Thunderbird team ...

I've been using Linux for more than 12 years now ... used Unity then adapted to Gnome and finally I'm a fan of KDE.
on KDE, Thunderbird sends notifications for

new emails, however, they aren't clickable, so it doesn't open Thunderbird and shows you the email, it only has a close button.
please fix this problem, its frustrating, and must be function
Kind regards
Mohammed Gritli

[Erick555]

First of all flathub app isn't affiliated with with Mozilla/Thunderbird.

Secondly I'm not sure if I understand you correctly - when you run TB flatpak on gnome clicking on notifications work but on kde it doesn't? Or did it worked with TB from distro repos? Keep in mind that ubuntu provide some special extension for notifications in TB. You can request for adding something like it in upstream TB here if nobody asked for it already

[Erick555]

For now can confirm that clicking on notifications doesn't work when using TB from my distro repos on KDE.

[Erick555]

Closing as this is upstream issue, non actionable here.

[mjgritli]

ok,
I'm surprized no one pointed that out, I like TB, and hope this issue is fixed in the very next release.
Good luck
Kind Regards

[ovari]

Can you please cross-reference the bug listing here from Thunderbird Bugzilla?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=thunderbird

Thank you

[Erick555]

Related upstream tickets are here:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1491691
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1583071
Workaround is setting mail.biff.use_system_alert to false which makes notifications non-system native and uglier but clickable.

[Erick555]

I mentioned workaround in readme: https://github.com/flathub/org.mozilla.Thunderbird#new-mail-notifications