Re: New virtual package x-image-viewer?
On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 17:59 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:07:54PM +0200, Jan Hauke Rahm wrote:
> > Basically
>
> > 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).
>
> Well, a mailcap entry would qualify as such a standard interface - though
> you ought to be using 'see' (or 'run-mailcap') instead of parsing the file
> directly, indeed.
Freedesktop has a similar tool (less portable than mailcap, but it's
database probably more accurate... for instance my mailcap isn't aware
of image/x-xcf files).
$apropos xdg-open
> xdg-open (1) - opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application
$aptitude show xdg-utils | awk /^Descr/,/^$/
> Description: desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org
> xdg-utils contains utilities for integrating applications with the
> desktop environment, regardless of which desktop environment is used.
> They are part of freedesktop.org's Portland project.
> .
> The following utilities are included:
> .
> * xdg-desktop-menu - Install desktop menu items
> * xdg-desktop-icon - Install icons on the user's desktop
> * xdg-icon-resource - Install icon resources
> * xdg-mime - Gather MIME information about a file
> * xdg-open - Open a URL in the user's preferred application that
> handles the respective URL or file type
> * xdg-email - Open the user's preferred email client, potentially with
> subject and other info filled in
> * xdg-screensaver - Enable, disable, or suspend the screensaver
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