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Re: [Pan-devel] Launching attachments on Windows?
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Darren Albers |
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Re: [Pan-devel] Launching attachments on Windows? |
Date: |
Sun, 04 Feb 2007 10:15:52 -0500 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) |
Charles Kerr wrote:
> Darren Albers wrote:
>
>> I am making slow but decent progress on the patch to launch
>> attachments from Pan, so far it has been easy thanks to gnome-open,
>> kfmclient exec, and shellexec (I have been struggling a bit with tmp
>> file handling but it is well documented so I should have that under
>> control once I stop being distracted by the Super Bowl) but I worry a
>> bit about allowing any attachment type to be opened especially under
>> windows.
>
> If this is in reference to #347325, then the attachments will require
> users to click on them to open them anyway, so IMO it's the user's
> responsibility. Or are you saying Pan should be able to automatically
> launch attachments?
>
>
I was working on Pan opening attachments from this bug:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133085
Though the user would have to perform some action to open the
attachment, not just open the article.
Tenatively I was going to place the launch attachment option on the
header menu under save attachments.