Another (more difficult) way is to first launch the attachment as editable and then set the readonly flag 10 seconds later.
That will trick the application in thinking it is editable, and when it comes time to save, OOO will fail and prompt the user. It will also allow me to rotate images in Windows XP Picture Viewer to be right-side-up in the first 10 seconds that I open the photo. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/87101 Title: when opening an attachment, it should be written to tmp as a read-only file Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: Fix Released Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: mozilla-thunderbird If a user has been sent an OpenOffice document and they open it from the source email, it is all too common for them to edit it and click Save. When they come back later (especially after a reboot), the file is nowhere to be found because it was (from thunderbird's point of view) only ever a temp file. Accordingly, it would be useful if thunderbird wrote temporary files in such a way as to make them read-only from applications' perspectives - ie remove the write bit. This way, when the user wants to edit the document they will be forced into putting it somewhere else (ie their home directory). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/87101/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
