Hi
On 29.08.2017 06:33, Vladimir Kudrya wrote:
Things you describe already exist:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/latest/
and 'x-scheme-handler' notation is there for uri's.
The problem is that Firefox and Thunderbird do not follow the spec
properly.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296443 this bug is still
'new'.
So there is a common database, but Thunderbird ignores it. Okay, then
for now the best way seems to be to configure it manually in
Thunderbird: Edit→Preferences→Attachments→Incoming.
Thank you for the links. The whole thing looks very complicated; I was
expecting something simple like this:
*.pdf: atril, gimp, xpdf
*.xcf: gimp
*.gif: eog, firefox, gimp
In this case the first entry would be the default.
…But in reality, there is one one database that defines the file
extensions of mime types, one database that defines the mime types each
program can handle and one database that defines the default program, if
there are more than one. That looks really complicated.
I still have some questions:
1. Is there an API, or will the individual programs have to manually
parse these files?
2. I can imagine a problem when several file types share the same
extension. *.doc can be a Microsoft Word file or a GST 1st WordPlus file
or a plain text file. Is there a solution to this?
3. One solution would be that different system users interpret the
extensions differntly. Is it possible to customize the MIME-info
database on a per-user base?
4. Some programs are installed locally in a user’s home directory. Is it
possible to create *.desktop files that are used only by one user?
Where would they go?
5. Some system wide *.desktop files might be annoying to certain users.
Is there a way a user may blacklist them?
6. Are there graphical tools to configure these things?
Greetings,
Thomas
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