That seems a reasonable plan to me. I've orphaned the mime-support package, however, because I have no time to work on it right now and do not expect to have any for the foreseeable future.
-- Brian On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Vincent Bernat <ber...@debian.org> wrote: > ❦ 13 juillet 2012 12:18 CEST, Per Olofsson <pe...@dsv.su.se> : > > > 1. Rewrite xdg-utils so that it is robust and always works. Instead of > > relying on desktop environments, it should do the needed work by > > itself. Currently it's something of a hack, especially when running in > > "generic" mode. It should probably be written in another language than > > shell (e.g. Perl, Python, C). A nicer user interface for the command > > line wouldn't hurt either. > > > > 2. Make all other packages either use xdg-utils or follow the > > freedesktop.org MIME specs. > > Yes, I also think this is a good plan. > > Relying on existing desktop tools is too difficult. They get deprecated > (for example, gnome-open has been replaced by gvfs-open) or they cannot > be adapted easily because maintainers usually don't care about those > corner use cases. For example, gvfs-open does not wait for the viewer to > terminate, this makes difficult for mailers to pass a temporary > file. See: > - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=677430 > - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652262 > - https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678504 > > Once you get a working xdg-open, you can get a compatibility layer for > the mailcap stuff: > */*; xdg-open '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" > > Or something more sensible like: > image/gif; xdg-open -t image/gif '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" > image/png; xdg-open -t image/png '%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" > [...] > > The remaining problem is defining the priority of such entries compared > to entries inserted by packages still supporting mailcap. > -- > #if 0 > 2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/fs/buffer.c >
