Please don’t block upgrades over this. Minor visual issues should not be a blocker.
This issue is solved.
Canonical should update TB deb soon as:
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/102.15.0/releasenotes/
And the upgrade process, if I guess, is not blocked by this.
The issue isn’t solved, Thunderbird just said they weren’t going to fix it.
True, I was thinking about another issue, not this one.
Why TB snap is built without Wayland?
https://github.com/ubuntu/thunderbird/pull/5
FF snap is now using Wayland (am I right?).
And there’s still this issue about default calendar app in GNOME:
https://github.com/ubuntu/thunderbird/issues/10
I do not understand why TB deb is ok with that or FF snap is proposed as default browser. There should be a solution?
Unsure what’s the issue there, the snap is being listed as shown by the screenshot on that report?
I think @fthx points to a problem where Thunderbird (snap) is not visible in Calendar dropdown list (I can also confirm this)
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Oh, sorry I misread, well that’s an upstream issue and are you sure you can do that with the deb? https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/thunderbird-calendar-in-gnome-shell-default-apps was about that not working for the deb and on mantic the deb isn’t listed in the settings either for me
The snap has its own .desktop and it was easy to add so I’ve done that now, the next candidate and beta builds should have the fix
https://github.com/ubuntu/thunderbird/commit/5a71b11a
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115.3.1 candidate snap
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So the last annoying issue with the TB snap is (for me) the “Send to” option in Nautilus that does not attach the selected files. Is there a magic to do that too? 
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Normally I do not use that option but I tried it now and in my case, it is attaching the files! (u22.04, thunderbird snap stable channel)
So that’s a Mantic bug?
I confirm that, for me, it does never attach any file.
IIRC when I used TB 115 deb in Mantic (Mozilla PPA), it worked.
When I try Mantic, right-click a text file in Documents and use " Email ", Thunderbird opens and there is a mail window, but no attachment is added.
I can manually add the attachment though by clicking the " Attach " button on the top right.
The issue with sendto is that nautilus 43 replaced the old sendto extension by the use of the email portal from xdg-desktop-portal-gtk which constructs a mailto: url with attachment= but that isn’t handled by thunderbird for security reason as explained there and in the source
Could someone report an issue against xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, ideally upstream?
The issue is also not there in 22.04 since that’s using the old nautilus-sendto version
it’s not exactly the same problem though, the path and access is correct today for files in the user directory but the way thunderbird is called is just not valid and it doesn’t work with the deb either on mantic
Right, it seems the describe the issue, the upstream reactions aren’t really promising though, another of those frustrating cases where an upstream decide to replace a feature by another one which isn’t ready/working. It doesn’t have to do with the thunderbird snap nor the new upstream serie so that’s off topic here at this point but probably something we want to work on resolving for the LTS (either removing the option from the filemanager or making it behave)
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Vanilla GNOME is not the default Ubuntu Desktop, but it has extensions. Today’s email is not capable of handling larger files and it is 50 year old email protocol faults, but today email clients have also extensions and Mozilla is among them. Once upon a time there were also UbuntuOne - a few GB space with additional options, but Google, Microsoft and DropBox were more handy but not profitable in this space… Today they are also special email clients with special protocols and also phone message clients when some younger one doesn’t even know what email is and such 50 years flaws is a BIG handicap and although Google is doing their HTTP2/3 research, but its huge market share and reliability is in the past with no research in this area to overcame some flaws but also make some other vendors happy with their crappy web servers on their own domain or own google WorkSuite but with Mozilla client in some situations 