Bug 470169
| Summary: | thunderbird opens PDF with evince, should be using acroread | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jonathan Kamens <jik> | ||||
| Component: | thunderbird | Assignee: | Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED NEXTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | caillon, gecko-bugs-nobody, mcepl | ||||
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| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-11-10 23:18:02 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Description
Jonathan Kamens
2008-11-06 04:20:56 UTC
TB settings are stored in the mimeType.rdf files, so this would be a good start to find out where the information is coming from:
find /usr/lib*/thunderbird-2.*/ ~/.thunderbird/ -name mime\*.rdf \
-exec grep -i 'pdf' '{}' \;
and these are the Gnome settings
find /usr/share/mime ~/.local/share/mime -name \*pdf\*
Could I get outputs of these two commands, please?
... and attached any file found by this search, which seems to be relevant. /usr/share/mime/application/pdf.xml doesn't show anything useful. I have /home/jik/.thunderbird/pvb1vszn.default/mimeTypes.rdf, which I will attach, which seems to show that thunderbird is supposed to be opening PDF files with acroread. Created attachment 323102 [details]
mimeTypes.rdf file
I removed mimeTypes.rdf, and the next time I tried to open a PDF attachment it asked me what to do with it. I said to use /usr/bin/acroread, and it worked. It claimed that I could subsequently edit the action in the Content tab of the Preferences dialog (it really should say Attachments, not Content), but in fact the just-added action does not appear there (in fact, nothing appears there). So although deleting mimeTypes.rdf seems to have solved my immediate problem, things clearly still are not functioning properly. <RDF:Description RDF:about="urn:mimetype:handler:application/pdf"
NC:saveToDisk="false"
NC:handleInternal="false"
NC:alwaysAsk="false"
NC:useSystemDefault="true">
<NC:externalApplication RDF:resource="urn:mimetype:externalApplication:application/pdf"/>
</RDF:Description>
Note that your mimeTypes.rdf was set to use the system default. That may not be the same as what GNOME is using though it ought to be. Bottom line is that thunderbird is/was asking the system what to use and then used the reported application. Another note is that firefox 3.0 and thunderbird 2.0 use a different bit of code here, and that may be causing some difference in behavior, but this won't be fixed in TB 2.0. Thunderbird 3.0 pre-release versions are out and will be appearing in rawhide post-F10 at some point, which may help this out.
The other issue with it not showing up in the list is an upstream bug. Since things are working now, I recommend closing the bug since there's not really much that can be done given that the TB 2.0 branch is essentially in security-only mode at this point.
Closing as suggested. |