Andrew Daviel wrote: > I'd like mailcap to work as a fallback; it's simple,
Kinda, it's not so simple (see below) > I understand it, and it's been standard in Unix for years. It's actually been poorly supported/unsupported for years. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_des c_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=mailcap&long_desc_type=substring&long_d esc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_ty pe=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&em ailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailassigned_to2=1&emailrepo rter2=1&emailqa_contact2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=&bugidtype=include&bu g_id=&votes=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit&order =Reuse+same+sort+as+last+time&field0-0-0=noop&type0-0-0=noop&value0-0-0= https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=83305,115041,120380,1627 42,173106 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83305 Add correct parsing/spawning of handlers from mailcap entries https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115041 support %u in mailcap helpers https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120380 needsterminal flag in mailcap must be respected https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162742 Helper Applications doesn't prepopulate based on mailcap https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173106 copiousoutput ignored in mailcap I think this doesn't include the fairly important bug about file handles not being closed before helper applications are spawned. > Apart from the streaming media playlists, > I have entries on my desktop for things like Xfig, > LaTeX DVI, PostScript, Excel etc. while installers > for things like Java Web Start > assume they can add mailcap entries. I'm not knocking mailcap. I happen to think it's nice in theory too. But in practice, there are a lot of problems, a number of which are hard if not impossible to solve properly. > Any application specifically written for the tablet would use > DBUS, but we might still port desktop applications which run > from the command line. Someone should write a dbus wrapper thing.... But yes, gecko kinda supports mailcap and microb or tablet-browser breaks it. Sorry about that. _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
