347652 - 'Attachments - View & Edit Actions' doesn't allow for NEW filetypes/actions

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 234245

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Rick Stockton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060727 BonEcho/2.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060727 BonEcho/2.0b1

After pressing 'View and Edit Actions', I *DO* get a pop-up Window with a list of extensions, File Types, and Actions. And 'Search' works. (I'm not suffering bug 333277 or 330614, which were Resolved a few months back.)

But there are buttons only to "Remove Action", "Edit Action" and "Close" the pop-up. No "ADD NEW ACTION" !!!

So the UI is inconsistent and dysfunctional: There exists an action for JPG images, which I can edit or delete, but I can't add an action for GIF images without hand editing mimeTypes.rdf

(As you can imagine, I would like to create an identical action for the "GIF" filetype.)

Maybe the fixes for 333277 / 330614 "lost" this button, or maybe its a side effect of new Theme Development. In any case, I feel that lack of a "new action" button is MAJOR borkage.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an Email with attached GIF, try to "Open" the file, see that nothing happens.

2. Go to Edit --> Preferences --> Attachments --> View and Edit Actions.

3. (Open TB Bug ;)

Actual Results:  
No opportunity to add a new action via the GUI

Expected Results:  
Should have seen a button to "Add a New Action"

I know how to find and edit the appropriate RDF, but that's not appropriate for typical users to "handle" a GIF file.

Maybe "GIF" should be present in the default, with the same action as JPEG. But the Serious bug is the lack of "New Action".

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

Duping to a Firefox bug, but please note that the code used by this is the same for both Firefox and Thunderbird.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 234245 ***