88458 - helper apps: should have "save to disk" option in New Type dialog

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

the New Type dialog for creating a new helper app should really have "save to
disk" available as an option. at present you need to first create, then re-edit
it via the Edit Type dialog. going back and forth doesn't seem to make sense. :)

i thought bug 80557 would cover this, but i think i was mistaken there. i also
thought a bug for this would've been filed long ago, but my query fu ain't
finding it at the moment...

Comment 1

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

true, there's a "save to disk" option in the helper app dialog itself... but
methinks that if a user wants to define a new helper app to save to disk, they
ought to have that choice in the New Type dialog itself. [whether from the
"Advanced" button in the helper app dialog, or from "New Type" in the helper app
preferences panel.]

Comment 2

[Francisco León]

I know it's a "save to disk" in a different option, but i think this is too
specific and maybe the other bug should be a little more general then get this
one duped

Comment 3

[Akkana Peck]

I'm glad to see this covered in a specific bug; it's been mentioned in passing
in a number of other bugs over the months, but the other bugs always end up
getting closed or duped and since this isn't the main issue, it keeps getting
overlooked.

Comment 4

[Peter Lairo]

<OT>
 Now once this is (finally) fixed, could someone put a "rightclick: what is
this" or tooltip for *every* item in the "New Type" dialogue? e.g. What the
§#@## is a MIME type, and what does it do?
</OT>

Comment 5

[timeless]

right click what's this is rather annoying. a what's this widget and a help 
button are prefered imo.  However that belongs as a seperate bug; Ian: do we 
have a bug for that?

Comment 6

[Akkana Peck]

What's the status of this bug?  It's still very hard to add a new helper type
since save to disk isn't there in the first dialog and "always ask" is still
always greyed out when you re-edit.  Is there any hope of a fix?

Comment 7

[Akkana Peck]

*** Bug 96094 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Bill Law]

*** Bug 79503 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

spam: over to File Handling. i have not changed the assigned developer [or the
other fields for that matter], so if anyone realizes that a bug should have a
more appropriate owner, go ahead and change it. :)

Comment 10

[Blake Ross]

-->law

Comment 11

[Bill Law]

->mozilla0.9.8

Comment 12

[Bill Law]

Not today...

Comment 13

[Bill Law]

Spam: Dropping off my list for MachV/mozilla1.0.  If you have issues, please 
make your case by stating which of my mozilla0.9.9 or mozilla1.0 bugs you think 
are of lesser importance.

Please note that *some* of these might be fixed elsewhere if there is work 
being done in the same area of code.  In most of those cases, I will have 
marked such bugs by putting the *real* bug in the "depends on" field.

Comment 14

[Peter Trudelle]

nsbeta1- per ADT triage team

Comment 15

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

any time for this for buffy?

Comment 16

[Samir Gehani]

Nav triage team: nsbeta1-

Comment 17

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Fixed by bug 86640

Comment 18

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

fixed, I said.  ;)

Comment 19

[Chris Petersen]

Verified in the Winn32 2003-01-23-03 and OS X 2003-01-23-04 trunk builds.