886130 - Allow 'select helper application' dialogue to use KDE 'select program' dialogue/menu

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[bugsnmd]

Attachment: openwith.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130512194354

Steps to reproduce:

Open a new file type, or go into firefox preferences --> applications and try and change the default program used to open a particular file type


Actual results:

It comes up with a little menu showing my file system


Expected results:

Firefox should instead bring up the default 'open with' menu for KDE (see attachment) , or with a version of the open with menu which allows the use of the applications and programs kioslaves (http://www.maketecheasier.com/quick-easy-guide-to-kde-kio-slaves/2009/08/17). Otherwise finding a program to use to open the file is actually a fairly lengthy process (you have to locate the binary manually)

Comment 1

[bugsnmd]

Same problem/ desired solution also applies to thunderbird

Comment 2

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

I can't reproduce the issue with the latest Nightly (build ID: 20130624031040) on an Ubuntu 12.10 32bit machine. I've tried to change the settings for the PDF files, and it seems ok.

Could you please give more detailed steps to reproduce?

Comment 3

[bugsnmd]

Hi, I'm actually using Linux Mint 14 KDE (64-bit) though it may well be the same packages, I can't confirm whether this would be the same in Kubuntu.

So, using PDFs as an example:
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/21106560/1536565277/name/emboss%20the%20european%20molecular%20biology%20open%20software%20suite.pdf
 Go to download button, press open with, select other, and a selector like this (*I will attach screenshot in a sec if I can) comes up. To actual select an application a user would have to manually find the binary.

Are you getting the same menu?

Comment 4

[bugsnmd]

Attachment: wrong-menu (file system)

Comment 5

[bugsnmd]

see that attachment for what I'm currently getting!

Comment 6

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

> So, using PDFs as an example:
> http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/21106560/1536565277/name/
> emboss%20the%20european%20molecular%20biology%20open%20software%20suite.pdf
>  Go to download button, press open with, select other, and a selector like
> this (*I will attach screenshot in a sec if I can) comes up. To actual
> select an application a user would have to manually find the binary.
> 
> Are you getting the same menu?

No. After selecting Open with -> Other, testfile-1 is automatically chosen (with the latest Nightly build), using Ubuntu 12.10 32bit.

Comment 7

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Could you please try the following, to see if you still reproduce the issue :

1) try this with a clean profile: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

2) running in Safe mode: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Comment 8

[bugsnmd]

OK, will try that but I think this may be KDE specific, have you tried it with KDE?

Comment 9

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

(In reply to nickmdowson from comment #8)
> OK, will try that but I think this may be KDE specific, have you tried it
> with KDE?

I don't have KDE. I only have an Ubuntu 12.10 32bit machine.

Comment 10

[bugsnmd]

OK I can confirm that the problem persists with a clean profile and with safe mode.

You should be able to install KDE with   "sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop", 

(http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/install-kde-kubuntu-on-ubuntu/) and then login to the KDE option from the login screen options.

See also this forum where I discussed it with some folk from KDE: http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=224&t=110455

Thanks!

Comment 11

[ro.ggi]

No, this is not KDE specific. I tested this with the new installed Ubuntu 13.04 (with Unity) and after selecting Open with -> Other I got window as in a wrong-menu image. Both Gnome (same as in Unity) and KDE has specific app selecting menus, but Firefox does not use them. On KDE it is more important, because KDE uses other default apps then Firefox and users have to correct this manually.

(In reply to Manuela Muntean [:Manuela] [QA] from comment #6)
> No. After selecting Open with -> Other, testfile-1 is automatically chosen
> (with the latest Nightly build), using Ubuntu 12.10 32bit.

What do you mean exactly? Can you choose between different applications?

Comment 12

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

I can reproduce this issue, using latest Nightly (build ID: 20130923030204) on an Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit machine, and the steps from comment 3.

Comment 13

[bugsnmd]

I can confirm that I've experienced this bug on Debian - both testing and stable with the KDE desktop - as well as in Kubuntu 14.04 and Linux Mint KDE