From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42656 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: K v uses eeyes, even though mailcap uses xzgv (Was: OORT.jpg) Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:00:32 +0100 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <15428.24037.915748.885775@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <871ygc4vgy.fsf@bang.priv.no> <87665n21u3.fsf@bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177869 12998 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:24:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:24:29 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 19504 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2002 18:01:14 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2002 18:01:14 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16Utbs-00077U-00; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:00:56 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:00:52 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA02937 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 12:00:40 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 19481 invoked by alias); 27 Jan 2002 18:00:39 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 19476 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2002 18:00:39 -0000 Original-Received: from ingebrigtsen.no (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Jan 2002 18:00:39 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16UteX-0007v3-00 for ; Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:03:41 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: quimbies.gnus.org Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1012154621 29739 195.204.10.148 (27 Jan 2002 18:03:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Jan 2002 18:03:41 GMT Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Playing: Tortoise's _Why We Fight_: "Why We Fight" User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: 5PA;[4Oam3hf,/Kyy-)s%O\RMR_~'%8n(,[BFSG@p>SBwn~;CL>yIOk1cwS!NZT?jpb_YrO s.,>._J[\'DxYN'x?}xwlp-iR;ob+4YZ&Ez1n>T+<> No, the behaviour doesn't seem logical. Is this behaviour mandated by >> the mailcap RFC? Is it the practice of other programs using the >> mailcap file (eg. Netscape)? Or is it just the MIME library used by >> Gnus? > > I raised this issue some years ago, I think (maybe only some months > ago). But I don't remember what was the decision. The idea is that a more specific entry is supposed to override a more generic entry. If you specify image/* to be viewed by one thing, and image/jpeg by another, the latter entry is supposed to override the former. However, the mailcap library is supposed to check whether the program the entries point to is installed. It doesn't seem to work in this case, which is a bug. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen