Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 01:33 +0200, Hendrik Sattler a écrit : > > >> If you open a file in a file browser, or you open it thru a web > > >> browser or something, it might have a mime type assosiated with > > >> it. So what I think you suggest is that based on the mime-type > > >> we start an application that should be able to handle that > > >> mime-type. > > > > > > This is what the Freedesktop.org MIME database achieves. No need to > > > reinvent what is already a widespread standard. > > > > The proposal here talks about differnt thing, but indirectly concerns > > the mime types, which are used to associate actions to certain file > > extensions. > > Why not have something that starts the proper program according to the given > mimetype? E.g.: > x-mime-handler application/whatever
That would be run-mailcap, perhaps enhanced to not require a file name. An x-spreadsheet could indeed be a wrapper around run-mailcap, so that the actual program to use could be overridden in ~/.mailcap. Regards, Thibaut. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]