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Re: MIME support in Debian.



Daniel Leidert <daniel.leidert.spam <at> gmx.net> writes:

> 
> Am Samstag, den 22.12.2007, 23:34 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy:
> 


> > Also, if there are two such
> > programs installed, is there something that can be done through MIME so
> > that the user has a chance to chose the program ?
> 
> Not directly through MIME (the MIME RFCs just describe the so called
> Internet Content type, e.g. "text/plain" - association with programs is
> AFAIK not part of the MIME standard). This has been described in the
> fd.o standard:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s07.html
 
Isn't the mailcap.order file (or similar, I'm currently condemned to use a
Windows box) used for that, probably together with update-mime?

Regards, Frank





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