[Bug 209695] Re: attachments open in read only mode

[Jane Silber]

Yes, I'm proposing that the behaviour we are trying to guard against is
people unintentionally saving files to temp storage.  So it seems to me
a reasonable way  to address that (where reasonable means I don't really
know how hard the tech implementation is ;) ) is to provide a suitable
warning when someone tries to do exactly that - save to temp.  The issue
to me seems to be in OpenOffice and other applications that save files -
that is where users go wrong.  I think making apps like Thunderbird open
attachments in a given way isn't the right place to address the original
issue, as it catches too many other use cases.

I haven't tried the mozilla-open-office plug in so don't know for sure,
but from your description of "allows you to save anyplace you want",
that isn't what I am looking for.  I am looking for Mozilla behaviour
that lets me open an attachment and then modify it directly if I want.
I don't think my mail program should assume that I will misuse my
document editor.  If my document editor (e.g,. OpenOffice) is worried
about me accidentally saving to temp storage, then I think it is
reasonable that it warn me if I attempt to do such a thing.

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attachments open in read only mode
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209695
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