300523 - thunderbird can't open attachments with helpers which have a space in their filename

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[jacob berkman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.6 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.2
Build Identifier: Nightly Vversion 1.0+ (20050712)

Applications which have spaces in their names show up in the helper applications window as having a %20 
instead of the space, and can't be used to open attachments.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Somehow manage to add an association for a .xls file, using Microsoft Excel as the application
2. Try to open .xls file, it gives the error:

"... .xls could not be opened, because the associated helper application does not exist. Change the 
application in your preferences."

3. Open the helper application window, change .xls to Microsoft Excel

Actual Results:  
the associated helper for .xls files is "Microsoft%20Excel".  If i try to change this, it keeps the %20 in the 
name even after selecting Excel again.

Expected Results:  
It should be "Microsoft Excel"

Making a symlink Excel -> Microsoft Excel does not help, I had to actually cp the binary to one without a 
space in the name.

Then it worked fine.

Comment 1

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Reporter, does the issue still exist in the latest supported 2.0.0.x / Shredder trunk nightlies?

(1.5.0.x is now end-of-life and the latest 2.0.0.x is version 2.0.0.16)

Comment 2

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to previous comment. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to the bug with your reasons why.