Bug 21833

Summary:	no file associations for common file types
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Component:	thunderbird	Assignee:	Ajrat Makhmutov <rauty>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	CC:	fuckel, rauty
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2009-10-05 06:27:49 MSD

thunderbird-3.0-alt1.20090817

I've apt-get-installed thunderbird from Sisyphus, and 

1) when trying to open attachments, it never has a predefined program to open that type of files (I have tested it on common file types such as .doc, .pdf, .xls, .rtf, .ppt).

2) I have to choose the program by choosing the executable file in /usr/bin/ -- this is quite inconvenient and also almost impossible for a novice users: a menu-like application chooser would be more convenient.

(A similar deficiency in Firefox is described in https://bugzilla.altlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16651 .)

Workaround: Until I needed a specific feature of Firefox of Thunderbird, my workaround was to use Seamonkey and Seamonkey Mail, which have these useful pre-configured file associations.

Comment 1 Vasyĺ V. Vercynśkyj 2009-10-20 11:44:59 MSD

Давайте поддерживать порядок, тогда шансы решить проблему существенно возрастут.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 20910 ***

Comment 2 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2009-10-21 18:20:19 MSD

(В ответ на комментарий №0)

> 1) when trying to open attachments, it never has a predefined program to open
> that type of files (I have tested it on common file types such as .doc, .pdf,
> .xls, .rtf, .ppt).

And for an .html attachment it wanted to use links, which is not the best choice for a graphical DE (Xfce).

> 2) I have to choose the program by choosing the executable file in /usr/bin/ --

and I had to choose /usr/bin/seamonkey by hand, which took quite a long time (browsing the filesystem through the file selection dialog).

> this is quite inconvenient and also almost impossible for a novice users: a
> menu-like application chooser would be more convenient.

Comment 3 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2009-11-12 17:43:42 MSK

And it's impossible to select a program to open the attachment, if it has no correct specific type declared; like this one:

Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
 name="Priobretenie_marsrutizatora.docx"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
 filename="Priobretenie_marsrutizatora.docx"

Only saving, and opening through the file manager (which has a working correct association for ".docs") succeeds.

So, it's a wanted feature: thunderbird suggests a program for opening an attachment also based on the attachment's filename (extension).