739161 - Use xdg-open for opening attachments

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 694870

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Hugo Osvaldo Barrera]

When I click on an attachment, there are two options: "Open with... <combo>" and "Save file".

If I select open with, I need to navigate to the location of the program I want (ie: /usr/bin/libreoffice or /usr/bin/gpicview).  This isn't user friendly, and most users have already configured a system-wide default for opening common file types.  Not to mention, that "average joe" won't know that he needs t look for programs in /usr/bin.

By running "xdg-open /path/to/attachment", xdg-open will run that default program with the attachment as an argument, which would result in it being opened by the system-wide default.

I propose adding a third option to the dialog in question, being "Open with default application", so we'd have:

* Open with default application (use xdg-open)
* Open with... (as is now, user need to browse to the location of the binary he wants to use)
* Save file (leave that as it is)

Comment 1

[alex_mayorga]

Confirming based on http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1phhx1/we_are_mozilla_ask_us_anything/cd3kx2s

Comment 2

[Alex Henrie]

Duplicate of bug 694870.