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mozilla-thunderbird package

  1. Bug #209695
  2. Comment #77

Comment 77 for bug 209695

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Ric Flomag (ricflomag) wrote : Re: attachments open in read only mode

Rising this bug from the deads ;)

IMHO, the ideal behaviour is that the file would open in the helper application as a new file: allowing edits *and* displaying a "save as..." window on save. As simple as this.

Openoffice allows this. Extract from the manpage
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-n filename
              Creates a new document using filename as a template.
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So, why not configure Tunderbird, Firefox and other internet software so that helper apps open in "new file" mode when possible ? Files would still be saved read-only to /tmp in any case.