On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 15:10 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Ben Hutchings] > > I don't think it's there yet, but AppStream will get some support from > > upstream developers (including through existing .desktop files) > > whereas debtags presumably doesn't. > > It is already possible to search for packages announcing support for > MIME types, and the data set is populated with data from the desktop > files. See > ; > for a recipe. [...] I know that, but full integration would mean prompting the user to install a suitable package automatically, e.g. when trying to open an email attachment and there is no previously chosen program (or no installed program at all) that can handle that MIME type. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example.
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