From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/62795 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "Mailcap" parsing for Freedesktop .desktop files Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:09:25 +0200 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: References: <87acky9thn.fsf@vera.springies.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145009575 20797 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2006 10:12:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:12:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m11322@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Apr 14 12:12:52 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FULII-0005MM-EZ for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:12:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FULIE-0005jr-00; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 05:12:46 -0500 Original-Received: from nas01.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.39]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1FULFf-0005jj-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 05:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas01.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FULFd-00007D-Dk for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 05:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1FULFc-0001XW-00 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:10:04 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FULFW-00052k-NY for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:09:58 +0200 Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org ([80.91.231.2]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:09:58 +0200 Original-Received: from larsi by quimbies.gnus.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:09:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Clan of Xymox's _Medusa_: "Masquerade" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110005 (No Gnus v0.5) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nOKqmr0Xet80uDkSBu7Qd6HH+pE= X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:62795 Archived-At: Alan Shutko 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... -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen