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Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?



On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:12:30PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:07:54PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote:
> > egrep '^image/(png|x-portable-pixmap)\s*;\s*((\S*).*?)\s*($|;.*)' /etc/mailcap
> > 
> > > A virtual package only makes sense if it will also provide a standard
> > > interface that other packages will invoke.
> > 
> > It doesn't have such, it just chooses one out the list provided by the
> > command above (it's actually perl but anyways).
> 
> Try "see", maybe.

That is without doubt a cool tool but mime-support doesn't provide any
image viewer. So my initial problem isn't solved: I need to somehow
recommend image-viewers. Having a tool to read /etc/mailcap is not
enough.

Hauke

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