535634 - Thunderbird Should Use the Open With Dialog from Nautilus

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 397700

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7pre) Gecko/20091212 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.2
Build Identifier: 3.0

When opening an attached file, if a user presses the 'open with' drop down, and then selects "Other...", TB should implement the Nautilus API to use the Nautlius "Open With" dialog. 

This would be helpful because there are hundreds of executables on a Linux machine, and the alternative here is to type in the location of the application you want - a fact that has to be looked up with 'which firefox' or the like. DDoing this is well outside the normal user's abilities, and they shouldn't be expected to do this.

Hope this makes sense. I can provide a screenshot of the Nautilus "open with" dialog if that helps.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get an attachment that isn't already configured to open automatically in a certain program.
2. Double click it.
3. In the Open With drop down, select "Other..."
4. Note how bloody hard it is to find the application you want.

Comment 1

[Vincent (caméléon)]

I am quite sure that these bugs are similar, please comment if you think it is a different problem.