"Mailcap" parsing for Freedesktop .desktop files

"Mailcap" parsing for Freedesktop .desktop files

[Alan Shutko]

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I noticed on my Fedora Core 4 system that the mailcap files were never
updated with all the various Gnome applications.  Instead, they put
the information about what mime types they handle in .desktop
applications in /usr/share/applications.  Here's a first cut at
parsing these files.

Right now, I'm using

(desktop-entry-add-entries "/usr/share/applications")

to add mailcap-mime-data entries for everything in there.  I think
something like this should make its way into Gnus, so I'm interested
in how people think I should integrate it.  I also think that the
Freedesktop .keys and .mime files should also be parsed for their
mime-type info, but I haven't had a need for that yet.

An alternative would be to create a mailcap from these files, but
mailcap seems to be an endangered species.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - I am the rocks.
Every human heart is human. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Re: "Mailcap" parsing for Freedesktop .desktop files

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> I noticed on my Fedora Core 4 system that the mailcap files were never
> updated with all the various Gnome applications.  Instead, they put
> the information about what mime types they handle in .desktop
> applications in /usr/share/applications.  Here's a first cut at
> parsing these files.

If this is going to be the standard way to handle MIME types, then
Gnus should include this.  I haven't really seen much talk about this
issue...

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen