no application selector when opening an undefined attachement

[Jérôme]

Binary package hint: thunderbird

Whatever the unknown mime type an attachement has, Thunderbird should provide an application selector in order to:
1. open the attachement for this time
2. teach Thunderbird what it will use the next time for opening the attachement.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Dec 7 12:03:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: mozilla-thunderbird (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1488): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1488): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1557): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1546): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (nautilus:2053): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Thorsten (kdefan)]

This happens to me with MP4 attachments (see hopefully relevant part of the raw email included below.) I only get the option to save the attachment to disk, but I can't open it from within TB. (This has been working just fine in TB 2.x.)

In Preferences -> Attachments, there are five pre-defined content types (DOC, http, PDF, TIFF, XLS), but there doesn't seem to be a way to add additional types.

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
  boundary="=_kow29Sia40SwsAG"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--=_kow29Sia40SwsAG
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="FOO.mp4"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="FOO.mp4"

[Thorsten (kdefan)]

Should this be merely of "Wishlist" importance? After all, this is a regression from TB 2.x.

[Daniel Newman (dmnewman)]

I agree this is more than "Wishlist". What it needs is a properly-configured default mimeTypes.rdf file for a start, plus a way to add additional types without having to hand-edit the mimetypes.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner.

If this is still an issue using a currently supported version of Thunderbird then please let us know otherwise this report can be left to expire in approximately 60 days time.

Paul White
[Ubuntu Bug Squad]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for thunderbird (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]