344433 - Thunderbird needs to use a new set of APIs to claim defaults in windows Vista

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 354897

(Thunderbird :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Ed Averett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; MSDigitalLocker Vista 1.3; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; NetFX 3.0.04131; Media Center PC 5.0; InfoPath.2)
Build Identifier: all current versions of Thunderbird

Windows Vista provides new APIs that allow applications to register file and
protocol types more easily, and with new capabilities that allow the
application to describe itself so that the file association UIs can provide
meaningful information to the user.

We should be using these new APIs as soon as possible when we detect that the
target system is Windows Vista. 

The short list of things that need to change:

1.  The installer needs to Create new ProgIDs specific to its protocols and file associations (for instance Thunderbird.Url.Mailto)

2.  The installer needs register Thunderbird with the new default programs schema (
this is a schema written to HKLM at install time)

3.  Rev the code that Thunderbird uses to claim\check defaults to use the new API set.

The documentation for implimentation is on MSDN now

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_new_vista/default_programs.asp


Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
current version of thunderbird will not be able to make themselves the default mail handler on Windows Vista

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should be able to be the default mail client on windows vista

once the thunderbird revs to use the new infrastructre documented at

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_new_vista/default_programs.asp

everything will work

Comment 1

[Ed Averett]

this bug is also related to bug 339306 ion firefox.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

adding blocking status for now.

Comment 3

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Attachment: screenshot

Scott, we're going to need a new string for this OS provided ui.

Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

Despite making this a blocking bug, I still forgot that Ed filed this. 

I ended up filing my own bugs for this. See Bug 354895 and Bug 354897

I'll probably end up dup'ing this to one of those. Sorry about that Ed. But your documentation links were very helpful.

Comment 5

[Scott MacGregor]

This has been implemented for Thunderbird 2 by Bug 354895 and Bug 354897.

I'll dupe it against the installer change bug.