102349 - Text of "Downloading file" dialog is geeky ("<no application specified>")

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

When you download a file, the "Downloading file" dialog that prompts you to
select how you want the file opened will give the following options:

   What should Mozilla do with this file?
     ( ) Open using <no application specified>
     (o) Save file to Disk

The first option is rather ugly. We should replace that string with "an
application", so that the sentence always makes sense and doesn't sound so geeky:

   What should Mozilla do with this file?
     ( ) Open using an application
     (o) Save file to Disk

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->bill

Comment 2

[Bill Law]

"Normally" the first option has the name of the application (e.g., "Open using 
Microsoft Word").  I don't think we want to lose that.  But we should make it 
look better when no application has yet been specified.

Comment 3

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

Agreed, I didn't intend to mean that we should change our behaviour for the case
where an application is specified; that works fine.

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spam: over to File Handling.

Comment 5

[Bill Law]

->mozilla0.9.8

Comment 6

[Bradley Hart]

Attachment: patch to change text

needing r= and sr=

Comment 7

[Bradley Hart]

Attachment: localization note should be removed also

needing r= and sr= for revised patch

Comment 8

[Bradley Hart]

reassign to me

Comment 9

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

sr=[e-mail], FWIW.

/be

Comment 10

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Can I see a description of what this looks like in the dialog? or a screenshot? 

Comment 11

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Comment on attachment 58756 [details] [diff] [review]
localization note should be removed also

OK.. r=[e-mail]. Read Hixie's note.

Comment 12

[Bradley Hart]

Comment on attachment 58756 [details] [diff] [review]
localization note should be removed also

changing to reflect Brendan's sr

Comment 13

[Bradley Hart]

checked in.

Comment 14

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

vrfy'd fixed using 2001.11.28.0x-comm bits on linux rh7.2, winnt and mac 10.1.1.