Direct-opening a temporary file using the user's preferred application

[Jan Kundrát]

On Wednesday, 17 April 2013 18:38:22 CEST, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> When I directly open a document from the web, using Firefox, it opens in a
> read only view (in, say, Libreoffice).
> I've just tested, and it looks like it simply saves it, and then removes
> all write permissions from the file before
>  opening it, so Libreoffice offers 'Save as', but disables 'Save', and I
> can't easily overwrite the file. Is that the sort of thing you're after? It
> seems much simpler than bringing D-Bus into it.

Thanks, that's a great suggestion, I'll do that as well. The question on when to delete the temporary file still remains, though.

With kind regards,
Jan

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