279735 - Opening attachments not possible when default program is not known by TB, OK-button in Open-dialog is then greyed out

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Nikolas.Arend]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

With the linux thunderbird version (gtk2+xft enabled) it does not seem to be
possible to open an attachment directly, i.e. without prior saving, when there
is no default application defined for that attachment type.
When right-clicking on the attachment, the pop-down menu containing "Open",
"Save as", "Save all" appears. Choosing "Open" brings up the "Opening
<filename>" dialog. When TB does not suggest a default app for opening the
attachment, the dialogs "OK" is greyed out. That does not change even when one
is specifying an app via the "Choose helper application dialog".

I run Fedora Core 2, TB 1.0, desktop: xfce-4.2

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Under the "Attachment" options (Edit -> Preferences) no file types can be added,
all is greyed out. But maybe that's not implemented, yet.

Comment 1

[Richard van den Berg]

I see the same thing happening with TB 1.0 under Debian Linux. I think this only
happens when the mime-type is incorrectly set to application/octect-stream. TB
does resolve the correct type of the file (Microsoft Word) and default
application (Abiword), but it does not select it, and the OK button is greyed out.

When the attachment has the correct mime-type, everything works as expected.
This sound an awful lot like old Bug #221451

I'll attach a screenshot.

Comment 2

[Richard van den Berg]

Attachment: Opening dialog with greyed out OK button

The pull down list shows "Abiword (default)" and "Other" when opened. Selecting
either does not un-grey the OK button.

Comment 3

[Nikolas.Arend]

Seems to be fixed in TB 1.0.1RC

Comment 4

[Richard van den Berg]

Is this related to Bug #264492 ?

Comment 5

[Richard van den Berg]

I think this is a duplicate of Bug #264561

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Nikolas.Arend]

Hi,

as I said earlier in a post, that bug seems to be gone since 1.0.1RC, so I guess
it can be closed.

However, under the "Attachment" options (Edit -> Preferences) still no filetypes
can be added (see my initial post), TB 1.0.6. Is that intended?

Best,  Nick

Comment 8

[Kevin Brosnan]

No changes were made to the code base by this bug, worksforme.