111035 - Helper Apps: user selection for "Open using" should be remembered

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 86640

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spun off from bug 57423 --specifically see bug 57423 comment 15 and bug 57423
comment 16.

basically, when the user selects the "Open using..." *and* selects a particular
app via the "Choose" button, the following should occur:

a. the next time the helper app dialog appears for that type, "Open using..."
will be selected and the application remembered.

b. this change will be reflected in the Helper Applications preferences panel.
[ie, as if it had been added via the "Advanced" button in the current design.]
i'd think this would still allow users to change their settings if they change
their minds. :)

c. this change will persist during the current session *as well as* subsequent
sessions.

d. if the use had *deselected* the "Always ask before opening..." checkbox in
the helper app dialog, (a) will not appear, but (b) and (c) will still be true.


observation: this is not the behavior with current trunk builds...with the odd
exception of bug 97707 [mac-only] --basically it's like (c), except that it only
persists for the current session.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 111740 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Bill Law]

This sounds plausible.  Please reconcile it with bug 86640, which is aiming at 
a similar result, I think.  I'm making this bug a dup of that one (I think one 
redesign is enough).  I'm going to add a pointer there over to this bug to make 
sure people see this proposal (which I think is better since it doesn't suffer 
from the problems I recently noted there).

Would adopting this permit us to remove the Advanced... button from the dialog?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86640 ***

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

in comment 2: Would adopting this permit us to remove the Advanced... button
from the dialog?

yes, if (b) were implemented, then the Advanced button could be removed.

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

since bug 86640 was renominated for buffy and summarily minused, i'm reopening
this one in hopes of clarifying this feature for buffy.

Comment 5

[Peter Trudelle]

re-duping, since 86640 is +/2

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 86640 ***

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

yep, this looks fixed using 2003.01.13.08 trunk bits.