On natty I don't encounter this problem any more.
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Title:
Some attchments (.pdf, .xlsx) don't have open dialog just save dialog
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I made further tests with the following result: I took such a PDF I got
(offering only the save option) and sent it as new mail with attachment
to myself using Thunderbird.
Result: Open option available! - So it does not depend on the PDF
itself. I assume that it depends on the mailer how it
Downloaded gnome-open addon manually (as it is not found when searching
for addons from within Thunderbird) and that solves the issue also for
me (just note that because in earlier post (comment #4) of spadger it
was not clear for me which of the two mentioned addons solved the
problem.
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Just for the case it helps: Tested on current icedove under Fluxbox -
had not the issue.
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Some attchments (.pdf, .xlsx) don't have open dialog just save dialog
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I find that the problem affects not only Thunderbird, it also affects
Firefox. Example: when I aim to open the .pptx file at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/384553/comments/2
Firefox can save but not open the file.
Key point: there is no invitation to associate the
** Changed in: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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Some attchments (.pdf, .xlsx) don't have open dialog just save dialog
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According to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1442764 this is a
problem of thunderbird itselves, and the following package will provide
a workaround: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/12523.
I did not read the source code of this addon, but it seems like the add-
on uses
According to
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Actions_for_attachment_file_types#Unexpected_handling_of_certain_attachments
the problem might arise from a corruption of the mimetypes.rdf file in
the thunderbird profile. In my case simply deleting this file and hoping
that thunderbird will restore it
Thanks, the addon works great. It's true this is not a real fix but at
least I don't have to mess around saving before viewing documents.
Cheers,
Spadger
On 14 June 2010 22:12, PeterPall gun...@peterpall.de wrote:
According to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1442764 this is a
problem
** Attachment added: dialog screenshot
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50286311/Screenshot_Opening_pdf.png
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