From: Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>
Subject: Re: Guessing based on file extension
Date: 02 Jan 2000 22:24:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iluaemoupzh.fsf@badis.pdc.kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "02 Jan 2000 08:24:42 +0100"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> On the one hand, this is user friendly. On the other hand, guessing
> is yucky. One could add a used config variable to control whether to
> do it or not, but if that defaults to nil, then that won't be very
> used friendly.
>
> So. Whaddayall think?
Here's an idea:
Nothing is changed in the article buffer (it still says
'application/octet-stream'), but there's a new entry in the
right-button popup-menu which say 'View as application/ms-word' or
whatever the guessed MIME type is.
IMHO this would make it easy enough to use for Gnus users, by the same
time it make it obvious that viewing the attachment as a
application/ms-word file might be the Wrong Thing under some
circumstances and leave the choice to the user.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-01-02 21:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-02 7:24 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-01-02 7:43 ` Daniel Pittman
2000-01-02 8:02 ` Hans de Graaff
2000-01-02 16:09 ` Alan Shutko
2000-01-02 22:42 ` Hans de Graaff
2000-01-02 15:35 ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-01-02 16:11 ` Steinar Bang
2000-01-02 21:24 ` Simon Josefsson [this message]
2000-01-03 12:05 ` Steinar Bang
2000-01-04 19:41 ` François Pinard
2000-01-04 23:32 ` Kai Großjohann
2000-01-05 0:02 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-01-05 7:47 ` Steinar Bang
2000-01-05 18:29 ` Kim-Minh Kaplan
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