On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 17:59 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:07:54PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote: > > Basically > > > egrep '^image/(png|x-portable-pixmap)\s*;\s*((\S*).*?)\s*($|;.*)' > > /etc/mailcap > > > > A virtual package only makes sense if it will also provide a standard > > > interface that other packages will invoke. > > > It doesn't have such, it just chooses one out the list provided by the > > command above (it's actually perl but anyways). > > Well, a mailcap entry would qualify as such a standard interface - though > you ought to be using 'see' (or 'run-mailcap') instead of parsing the file > directly, indeed.
Freedesktop has a similar tool (less portable than mailcap, but it's database probably more accurate... for instance my mailcap isn't aware of image/x-xcf files). $apropos xdg-open > xdg-open (1) - opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application $aptitude show xdg-utils | awk /^Descr/,/^$/ > Description: desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org > xdg-utils contains utilities for integrating applications with the > desktop environment, regardless of which desktop environment is used. > They are part of freedesktop.org's Portland project. > . > The following utilities are included: > . > * xdg-desktop-menu - Install desktop menu items > * xdg-desktop-icon - Install icons on the user's desktop > * xdg-icon-resource - Install icon resources > * xdg-mime - Gather MIME information about a file > * xdg-open - Open a URL in the user's preferred application that > handles the respective URL or file type > * xdg-email - Open the user's preferred email client, potentially with > subject and other info filled in > * xdg-screensaver - Enable, disable, or suspend the screensaver -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
