Interface from Thunderbird/Firefox to LibreOffice/VLC
Bug #1773416 reported by
philippe benaben
This bug affects 3 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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snapd |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
LibreOffice and VLC are installed in snap
When opening an attached document from Thunderbird, LibreOffice is launched but stop with an error message "/tmp/mozilla_
same with a video open with VLC
same when a document or video is download and open from Firefox.
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This is indeed expected, at least at a technical level, because each snap interacts with a private view of /tmp. As a form of isolation and to avoid accidental dependencies created through data shared through /tmp, snapped applications need a better form of exchanging data. I realize that there is nothing useful that can be done about this problem for now, apart from saving the files in your home directory for round-trip between programs.
Eventually we may either build some automatic mapping for files that are operated via /tmp or said applications will benefit from improvements to platform code that manages sandboxed applications, like the portal system.