Le mercredi 16 novembre 2011 à 14:00 -0500, Michael Leuchtenburg a écrit : > You said it was a bug to "rely on mailcap as a fallback". Did you drop > a word?
Yes. > /etc/mailcap has been a primary way to resolve MIME for a loooong time > now. Using it is now brain-dead? This is what I was asking - when did > it become Debian's policy not to support mailcap? Or is this just a > single-app initiative? Mailcap is a unmaintainable, legacy junk. The only way for it to survive would be if someone wrote a tool to generate the mailcap file based on the available desktop files. So far, people have been more keen on whining than on writing a simple script. > So what you're saying is, if Gnome isn't running, it should use a > Gnome tool to open things? xdg-open uses gvfs-open if Gnome is running > and does not use it if Gnome isn't running, presumably under the > reasonable assumption that non-Gnome users are not using Gnome for a > reason. I don't have gvfs-open installed and I would rather keep my > system as Gnome-free as possible. Less random background crap for me, > thanks. gvfs-open is not a GNOME-only tool. The only library it uses is GIO, and as I said, it will use the appropriate defaults based on the environment - mailcap will not. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `-
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