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From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: using gnome-open with mailcap data
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 11:39:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hb7t65yc.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zklqw167.fsf@fastmail.fm>

On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:17:20 +0200 Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> wrote: 

TH> And this bug report indicates that gnome-open is deprecated in favour of
TH> gvfs-open:

TH>   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556305

TH> But sadly, that has the same behavior...

TH> I've filed a new bug report at

TH>   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652262

Thanks for that.

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:05:18 -0700 Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote: 

EA> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

EA> [...]

>> 2. Can I use gnome-open for this sort of thing? It's basically its own
>> little mime parser, and knows all the system defaults, and if I'm
>> going to pass a file to something outside of gnus/emacs, gnome-open
>> knows best what to do with it. Setting gnome-open in my .mailcap file
>> just gives me "Displaying /usr/bin/gnome-open
>> /tmp/emm.5971frN/IMG_3368.JPG...done" in the minibuffer, and then
>> nothing happens.

EA> In fact, what I'd really like to do is short-circuit all the "view
EA> externally" commands so they go straight to gnome-open…

Agreed, that would make it less important to fix the sync bug above.  I
don't know all the Gnus magic around handling attachments, but IMO this
would be very nice.

Ted




  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-13 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-08 19:01 Eric Abrahamsen
2011-06-08 19:05 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-06-08 20:36 ` Dan Christensen
2011-06-10  1:39   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-06-10  8:17     ` Tassilo Horn
2011-06-13 16:39       ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-06-10  1:40   ` Eric Abrahamsen

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