thunderbird file associations, where to set ?

[korgull]

Hi,

I have a problem finding how to get a pdf file to open with thunderbird 
without actually saving it to disk first.

This used to work find before my fedora core 6 upgrade but since this upgrade 
acroread stopped working. I basically don't need acroread so like to open the 
attachments with another helper in thunderbird.
Thunderbird displays an error when I try to open a pdf, and says "change the 
association in your preferences". Unfortunately there no such thing in the 
thunderbird preferences.

I expect the file association doesn't need to be set in thunderbird but 
thunderbird also doesn't use my KDE settings either.

Does anyone know where I can set the file association ?

regards,
Marcel

[taharka]

How do,

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 22:24 +0100, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem finding how to get a pdf file to open with thunderbird 
> without actually saving it to disk first.
>
> This used to work find before my fedora core 6 upgrade but since this upgrade 
> acroread stopped working. I basically don't need acroread so like to open the 
> attachments with another helper in thunderbird.
> Thunderbird displays an error when I try to open a pdf, and says "change the 
> association in your preferences". Unfortunately there no such thing in the 
> thunderbird preferences.
>
> I expect the file association doesn't need to be set in thunderbird but 
> thunderbird also doesn't use my KDE settings either.
>
> Does anyone know where I can set the file association ?

Do you have an /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/global-config.js file? If so,
you should be able to set that file association there.
> regards,
> Marcel

taharka

Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 11/3/06, taharka  wrote:
> How do,
>
> On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 22:24 +0100, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a problem finding how to get a pdf file to open with thunderbird
> > without actually saving it to disk first.
> >
> > This used to work find before my fedora core 6 upgrade but since this upgrade
> > acroread stopped working. I basically don't need acroread so like to open the
> > attachments with another helper in thunderbird.
> > Thunderbird displays an error when I try to open a pdf, and says "change the
> > association in your preferences". Unfortunately there no such thing in the
> > thunderbird preferences.
> >
> > I expect the file association doesn't need to be set in thunderbird but
> > thunderbird also doesn't use my KDE settings either.
> >
> > Does anyone know where I can set the file association ?
>
> Do you have an /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/global-config.js file? If so,
> you should be able to set that file association there.

That file doesn't exist on any of my FC boxes.

[taharka]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 13:56 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> On 11/3/06, taharka  wrote:
> > How do,
> >
> > On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 22:24 +0100, Marcel Janssen wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a problem finding how to get a pdf file to open with thunderbird
> > > without actually saving it to disk first.
> > >
> > > This used to work find before my fedora core 6 upgrade but since this upgrade
> > > acroread stopped working. I basically don't need acroread so like to open the
> > > attachments with another helper in thunderbird.
> > > Thunderbird displays an error when I try to open a pdf, and says "change the
> > > association in your preferences". Unfortunately there no such thing in the
> > > thunderbird preferences.
> > >
> > > I expect the file association doesn't need to be set in thunderbird but
> > > thunderbird also doesn't use my KDE settings either.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know where I can set the file association ?
> >
> > Do you have an /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/global-config.js file? If so,
> > you should be able to set that file association there.
>
> That file doesn't exist on any of my FC boxes.

Nor none of mine. My mistake, I was looking on a Ubuntu system instead
of FC :-(
> --
> L. Friedman                                    [e-mail]
> LlamaLand                       http://netllama.linux-sxs.org

[korgull]

On Friday 03 November 2006 22:53, taharka wrote:
> Do you have an /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/global-config.js file? If so,
> you should be able to set that file association there.

No, I don't have this file.

I just managed to get it fixed, but this solution is not really what one would 
expect from such an application.
I would expect that if the helper can't be opened that thunderbird would ask 
me which application I want to use to open the attachment.

I found the mimeTypes.rdf file in my thunderbird directory and it held a 
section for the pdf mime type. I deleted that section and when trying the 
open the pdf file, thunderbird behaved like I described above.
Now I can chose an application and thunderbird does what I want it to do.

This method is not very obvious for most users I think.

regards,
Marcel