Closed Bug 739161 Opened 13 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Use xdg-open for opening attachments

Categories

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, enhancement)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
OS Integration
Platform:
All
Linux
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 694870

People

(Reporter: hugo, Unassigned)

Details

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)
Severity: normal → enhancement
Confirming based on http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1phhx1/we_are_mozilla_ask_us_anything/cd3kx2s
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Version: 11 → Trunk
Duplicate of bug 694870.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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