264124 - Choose Helper Application should list applications registered in menu

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[L.C. (Laurentiu C. Badea)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041008 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041008 Firefox/0.10.1

When opening an attachment with unknown MIME type, Thunderbird offers the option
of selecting an application to open it with. This is a great improvement.

But the dialog only allows browsing the entire filesystem to choose an entry,
and since most of them (on Linux) are in /usr/bin... have you counted the files
in that folder lately ? It takes forever just to make the list.

A welcome addition should be the following
- a text box so we can quickly type the command (I hope the lack thereof is not
related to using Gnome dialogs)
- an option that lists the applications currently registered in the main menu,
which are more likely to be chosen as handlers anyway.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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Comment 3

[[:Aleksej]]

Sounds like bug 370380, which has a stub patch.