Closed
Bug 203736
Opened 21 years ago
Closed 21 years ago
Should use PATH variable when running helper program for attachment
Categories
(MailNews Core :: Attachments, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: lpkruger, Assigned: mscott)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030405
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030405
When opening an attachment with an unknown mime type, there's a dialog box to
specify a helper application. However, the dialog box requires the full
pathname to an executable. It would be much less cumbersome if it could lookup
the executable in my PATH.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open an email with an attachment without a known helper
2. Double click the attachment.
3. There will be a dialog, "The file "foo.bar" is of type mime/type and Mozilla
does not know how to handle this file type... What should Mozilla do with this
file?
4. Check "Open it with"
5. Type in the name of a program, e.g. kwrite (if you have KDE installed)
Actual Results:
Error message: "The application you specified ("kwrite") could not be found.
Check the file name or select another application. I have to enter the full
path to the application in the dial (in my case "/usr/kde/3.1/bin/kwrite") to
make it work.
Expected Results:
Launched kwrite, which is a directory in my PATH variable.
Comment 1•21 years ago
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 82860 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: MailNews → Core
Updated•16 years ago
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Product: Core → MailNews Core
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