Open Bug 261801 Opened 20 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Disable "Open" in attachment menus if the only allowed default action is "save"

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: mcow, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Depending on the configuration, some attachments will be "opened" by saving them 
to disk -- making the "Open" and "Save" menu items redundant.  Rather than 
confuse users who expect "Open" to do just that, I suggest disabling the Open 
item if the default action for that attachment is Save to Disk.  

We still would want the Open action to be actually mapped to Save, for alternate 
pathways to the same logic -- e.g., the <iframe> issue described in bug 260039.
I forgot there is a File|Attachments menu where this same change could be 
implemented.
Summary: Disable "Open" in attachment context menu if default action is "save" → Disable "Open" in attachment menus if default action is "save"
QA Contact: front-end
Bug 368262 show same IMHO, but on specific case for rss. Could make that dep on this at least.
Bug 368262 is not a dup of this.  It is for a Wrong dialog.  This is for a smarter dialog Attachment bar context menu that keys off the Actions saved through the Options/Preferences dialog
Assignee: mscott → nobody
This bug is not very actionable. Is this still applicable? Please provide exact STR how to get into a situation where "open" and "save" should not be both available and do what they say, starting from the default configuration that ships with TB.

My intuition is that "open" and "save" should always do just that. Of course every "open" requires saving to some temporary location, but I hope that attachments that I just "open" will be deleted by TB after closing TB, or not?
I suppose the other difference is that "open" will not ask me for file names/ folder locations, whereas "save" may or may not ask me, depending on configuration (and we don't offer enough per-case flexibility here).
The one case I can think of involves Visio files (the .VSD extension), which as far as I know is still a blocked item that TB won't open directly.  I'm no longer interested enough to test.
.vsd does not show in my list of applications (tools > options > attachments). Is there a hidden list/functionality that deals with certain types of attachments?
Summary: Disable "Open" in attachment menus if default action is "save" → Disable "Open" in attachment menus if the only allowed default action is "save"
Severity: normal → S3
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