Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> writes: > On 01.02.2012 16:03, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> Assuming that Russ did not overlooked something this means that mailcap >> entries can not generatet from desktop files. So the one-liners >> mentioned by Josselin which might solve 50% of the task could not >> easily enhanced to two-liners doing 100% which do all the work. In >> other words we dropped support for a technique that is used by several >> programs and it seems a replacement is either hard to do or not >> possible at all. > Tools like mutt, which need the extended mailcap syntax, can certainly > continue to ship a mime file. > If a package ships both a desktop and a mime file, the conversion-tool > could simply skip the automatic generation of the mailcap entries under > the assumption that the manually written ones take precedence. Yeah, that's basically the sort of design that I was thinking of. The programs on my system that use the extended mailcap syntax are all ones that aren't very invested in using *.desktop files right now anyway. Things like copiousoutput are useful for commands that don't really fall into the core area intended to be addressed by *.desktop. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aa522o8e....@windlord.stanford.edu
