On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 15:30 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I just would like to warm up this thread a bit because I wonder if a > solution would be found in time for Wheezy release. It seems nobody > really seems to care about those suggested scripts and we are breaking a > certain amount of programs if mailcap entries are dropped without any > replacement. I wonder whether the severity of "important" is to weak to > reflect this. Several people in this thread expressed their annoyance > about this but nothing has happened so far. If nobody works on > automatic scripts (which are hard to write as Russ expressed here > because mailcap has features not implemented in freedesktop.org) should > we try something else to not spoil the wheezy user experience of terminal > addicted users? I'm also not seeing GNOME applications as file type handlers in Akregator (KDE application). So I'm not sure this is even 'just' a problem for text-mode applications. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Design a system any fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
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