689429 – Button "Open With" doesn't work

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Bug 689429 - Button "Open With" doesn't work

Summary: Button "Open With" doesn't work

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	evolution
Sub Component:
Version:	6.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	low
Severity:	low
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assignee:	Matthew Barnes
QA Contact:	Desktop QE
Docs Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2011-03-21 13:51 UTC by Jiri Koten
Modified:	2014-01-02 10:58 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)
Fixed In Version:	evolution-2.32.3-4.el6
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2013-11-21 04:59:31 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments	(Terms of Use)
proposed patch (791 bytes, patch) 2011-03-21 17:48 UTC, Milan Crha	no flags	Details \| Diff
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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:1540	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Low: evolution security, bug fix, and enhancement update	2013-11-21 00:40:51 UTC

Description Jiri Koten 2011-03-21 13:51:59 UTC

Description of problem:
When there is email which is too large to process, evolution gives two options to view it. You can view it unformatted or with an external text editor. The latter provided by button "Open With" doesn't work - nothing happens.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evolution-2.28.3-21.1.el6

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. view message whose text part is larger than set in Edit->Preferences->Mail Preferences->Do not format messages when text size exceeds
2. Click "Open With"
  
Actual results:
nothing happens

Expected results:
External text editor opens the message text

Comment 2 Milan Crha 2011-03-21 17:48:54 UTC

Created attachment 486659 [details]
proposed patch

for evolution;

This may help, on the first look. Could you give it a try with a test
package [1], please? The intention of that button is to give you a popup menu of application which can process the "too long" part. This popup menu is shown when you left or right-click on the "Open with" button.

[1] https://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/taskinfo?taskID=3190860

Comment 3 Jiri Koten 2011-03-23 15:46:28 UTC

When I left or right-click on the "Open with" button popup menu is shown with two options - "Save As..." and "Open in gedit..."

Not sure what should be the right behavior but I would suspect that the left click opens gedit, right click opens popup menu.

Also the button doesn't have any feedback on click/release as the rest of the buttons.

Tested in evolution-2.28.3-22.1.el6.

Comment 4 Milan Crha 2011-03-24 06:50:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> When I left or right-click on the "Open with" button popup menu is shown with
> two options - "Save As..." and "Open in gedit..."

Original developers meant to do that this way. Probably for cases where is no application associated for the mime type, or there is more than one. I do not  know for sure.

> Also the button doesn't have any feedback on click/release as the rest of the
> buttons.

What kind of feedback do you mean?

Comment 5 Jiri Koten 2011-03-24 12:51:18 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Also the button doesn't have any feedback on click/release as the rest of the
> > buttons.
> 
> What kind of feedback do you mean?
I mean the standard way how ui buttons acts on click event.
The button change its look when you click on it to let you know that you "pushed" the button and then changes back on mouse button release.

"Open with" button doesn't change on click event, it remains still.

Comment 6 RHEL Program Management 2011-07-06 00:22:38 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.

Comment 9 Milan Crha 2013-06-10 12:22:37 UTC

Still valid, with 2.32.3.

Comment 10 Milan Crha 2013-06-11 20:34:43 UTC

I replaced the "Open With" button with standard attachment button, which has disabled inline viewwing, thus user can at least save the attachment to a disk. The old "Open With" button didn't do anything even in 3.4.0 release.

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2013-11-21 04:59:31 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1540.html

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