Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 02:32:53PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> Steffen Joeris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Is it possible to get an alternative for a pdf-viewer, so that you can >> > choose /etc/alternatives/pdf-viewer in the code and this will link to a >> > free >> > viewer, e.g. kghostview or gpdf? >> >> Can't you just use "see $filename" and rely on the mailcap entry? > > That's my suggestion too. > > There's a whacky bug report against Xpdf about this (#257651). > I still don't know what to do with it.
If using mailcap.order is indeed "quite tricky for most people" as the submitter writes, maybe it would be better to implement some interactive frontend frontend¹ for mailcap.order. This would solve the problem generally, not only for pdf files, and fix or prevent similar bugs for other types of files. Regards, Frank ¹it would parse /etc/mailcap and/or /usr/lib/mime/ and generate a list of MIME types with their associated programs, allow to select one of them to take priority, and create the mailcap.order file accordingly -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
