Package: fish Version: 1.21.12-1 Severity: normal
Fish is a attempt at a intellegent shell. One of the features that it has is the ability to detect the mime types of files and then launch the user's prefered application to open that file. It does this with the 'open' built-in command. Also there is a tool called 'mimedb' that is supplied with the the fish package that you can use to see how files are handled by the shell. To do all this correctly it follows the Freedesktop.org convention of the '.desktop' files and their mimetype database. This stuff is supported by Debian and should work more-or-less. So I have a plain text file I should be able to go: open suchandsuch.txt But nothing happens. With mimedb you can go: mimedb suchandsuch.txt and it will return: plain/text but if you go mimedb -a suchandsuch.txt (a for action for the open command) It will return nothing. To get it to work you have to go in through nautilus and go through the right-click preferences dialog and select the program you want to use. Then it will work. What should happen is that it will choose the same generic commands that nautilus (or whatever Debian has by default) to open files when you double click them. You shouldn't have to select a action manually for each file type. How to fix it.. I don't know. You would have to choose actions based on desktop environment. Probably a nice fix would be a command used to assign programs to be launched or a error message explaining that it doesn't know and you have to assign a action via nautilus or whatnot so your personal ..desktop preferences are known. Something like that. How exactly fish is to know if your running KDE vs Gnome or what to do when your running something like Fluxbox or Ion3 I don't know. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-powerpc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages fish depends on: ii bc 1.06-19 The GNU bc arbitrary precision cal ii epiphany-browser [www 2.14.3-1+b1 Intuitive GNOME web browser ii firefox [www-browser] 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.6-4 lightweight web browser based on M ii konqueror [www-browse 4:3.5.4-2+b1 KDE's advanced file manager, web b ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.5-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii links2 [www-browser] 2.1pre23-1 Web browser running in both graphi ii lynx [www-browser] 2.8.5-2sarge2.1 Text-mode WWW Browser ii mozilla-browser [www- 2:1.7.13-0.3 The Mozilla Internet application s ii w3m [www-browser] 0.5.1-5 WWW browsable pager with excellent Versions of packages fish recommends: ii xsel 0.9.6-1.1 More than just cat for the X selec -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
