Package: mc
Version: 1:4.6.0-4.6.1-pre4-1
Severity: wishlist
Please consider letting the mc viewer handle compressed pdf files (*.pdf.gz).
Whenever pdf files appear in /usr/share/doc, they are typically compressed
further (at least debhelper compresses them in dh_installdocs).
Adding something like:
# compressed PDF
shell/.pdf.gz
Open=(zxpdf %f &)
to the extensions file will do the trick (using zxpdf instead of xpdf).
(perhaps you might prefer a regexp rather than the simple shell entry).
Other document types may or may not benefit from similar attention.
Compressed postscript fails in a similar way, but that's because "run-mailcap
application/postscript" is used by default to handle it. The user is free to
change that to the alternative of gv which you've already suggested
(commented out). gv can read *.ps.gz.
Anyway, I hope you can make the improvement for the pdf.gz files. I can't
think of any harmful side effects it might have.
Thanks,
Drew
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Debian Release: testing/unstable
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APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.5-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgpmg1 1.19.6-20 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii slang1 1.4.9dbs-8 The S-Lang programming library - r
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