On 6/12/06, Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> wrote:
I'm not sure if the alternatives system is the best place to "register" mime types. I'm also not sure that a Debian specific solution as the alternatives system is the best way to go. But I can see why this would be useful, and maybe it should work in combination with the alternatives system.
Opening based on mime-types is a solved problem, see /etc/mailcap. You can even specify different programs depending on whether you're in X or not. See run-mailcap. In particular: see <mime-type>:<filename> will determine the correct viewer for the file and display it. There is also edit, compose and print. Preferences can be consigured globally using /etc/mailcap.order. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@gmail.com> http://svana.org/kleptog/