Re: Bug#363486: dpkg: [update-alternatives] New categories for: WORD, EXCEL, MEDIA-PLAYER etc.

[jari.aalto@cante.net (Jari Aalto+usenet)]

* Wed 2006-06-14 Thibaut Paumard <paumard AT users.sourceforge.net>
* Message-Id: 1150288566.1225.141.camel AT pc-paumard.mpe-garching.mpg.de
> Le mercredi 14 juin 2006 à 01:33 +0200, Hendrik Sattler a écrit :
>
>> Why not have something that starts the proper program according to the given 
>> mimetype? E.g.:
>> x-mime-handler application/whatever
>
> That would be run-mailcap, perhaps enhanced to not require a file name. 
>
> An x-spreadsheet could indeed be a wrapper around run-mailcap, so that
> the actual program to use could be overridden in ~/.mailcap.

This would be good. Where should this feature request be filed?

One thing, when etc/mailcap entry reads:

   application/msexcel; oocalc '%s'; edit=oocalc '%s

What happens then 'oocalc' is not available? How is
the error handling done, so that e.g. 'xmessage' is
displayed under Window mamager to notify the user?

Jari