Paul wrote: > ralph wrote: > > > > As George pointed out, mpv(1) is popular. I switched to it from > > mplayer(1). > > Thanks for the tip.
Yes, Ralph, and for feh and llpp. mpv can be used for images, and its defaults for scaling and exit (--keep-open=no) seem handy for previewing. > > There are so many choices; couldn't we punt to xdg-open(1) for > > ‘mhshow-show-image’ which is the fallback if a subtype-specific entry > > isn't found? The current practice of pushing a GIF or JPEG through > > Agreed -- xdg-open seems to do a good job, at least as a fallback. I'd like to use xdg-open as the primary helper, if it's installed on the system. It was developed to manage that concern. Users can override with their own preferences, of course. > I just tried it on images (ImageViewer), videos (mplayer), audio (vlc), > pdf (foxit). I don't recall configuring it, but it might have picked > up on my mplayer preference somewhere. It does seem to use reasonable defaults. And if a package was configured to support it, installing or removing it updates the defaults. Ralph wrote: > To hijack the thread a bit, I find when I first show an email that I'm > after a summary of non-text parts, e.g. pdfinfo(1) rather than viewing > the PDF. > So presenting new users with a single ‘ show’ concept > seems wrong. show -preview? Or, leave this for experienced users to set up profiles just for preview use. David