clone 350123 -1
reassign -1 galeon
retitle -1 Galeon should permit opening the target of a link with any 
application
severity -1 wishlist
forwarded -1 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130988
merge 222656 -1
thanks

        Hi,

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On Tue, Jan 31, 2006, Tim Baverstock wrote:
> Yes. The mime-type thing is useful for many applications, but making it the 
> sole source of choice is too restrictive. By way of example: it would be 
> stupid for 'Vi' to register itself as being able to cope with HTML, but HTML 
> is a text-based format and it's fairly natural for someone to want to open a 
> HTML link in Vi, to examine it.
> 
> If opening a link in an arbitrary application could optionally register it as 
> able to handle that mime-type or file extension, that might be particularly 
> useful.

 Ok, I'm making this a bug against Galeon.  Someone already requested
 this feature in Debian bug #222656 which is upstream bug:
    http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130988

   Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Current Earth status:   NOT DESTROYED

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