As observed by Kaplansky, a C Ã -algebra is indecomposable exactly when its primitive ideal spectrum is connected. We extend the list of properties relating indecomposability to connectivity and define a corresponding concept of component projections in the enveloping von Neumann algebra of the C Ã -algebra in question. We prove that in two essentially different ways, the component structure thus defined is identical to the component structures of the spectra associated to the C Ã -algebra. Finally, we also consider further notions of connectivity, arcwise and local, in this setting.