This bug report documents an incompatibility between the version of
Thunderbird distributed with Ubuntu 18.04 and the version of VLC. One or
the other must be changed so that a video attachment opened by
Thunderbird is accessible to the user's default video player, VLC.
** Changed in:
[Expired for gnome-software (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity
for 60 days.]
** Changed in: gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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Matthew, thank you for properly identifying the responsible component of
Ubuntu 18.04 that prevents Thunderbird and VLC from interoperating.
"gnome-software" is more precise.
This is not a Thunderbird, VLC or snapd problem. This is an Ubuntu 18.04
application packaging issue. The problem is that
Andrew, I suggest deciding what you want this bug report to be about.
If it’s about the VLC snap, then in this case Sebastien suggests it’s a
bug in snapd.
If it’s about Ubuntu Software, then you should change the steps to
reproduce to focus on Ubuntu Software.
Either way, it should not be
Sebastien, this is not so much a snapd issue as it is an Ubuntu 18.04
issue. The Ubuntu Software application should not offer to install a
video player application that does not play with the its Thunderbird
application. Hence, I changed the bug target package to "software-
center."
** Package
(sorry, the previous comment is a different problem when thunderbird is
a snap itself)
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Title:
VLC Snap Incompatible With Thunderbird
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It has been discussed on the snap forums on https://forum.snapcraft.io/t
/cannot-open-pdf-attachment-with-thunderbird/11845
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Title:
VLC Snap
Thank you for your bug report, that's a snapd issue, the vlc snap has
its own private /tmp which means the system one is not available there
** Package changed: thunderbird (Ubuntu) => snapd (Ubuntu)
** Changed in: snapd (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
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