First of all, please use a mail client that honors Reply-To correctly. Le mercredi 16 novembre 2011 à 13:12 -0500, Michael Leuchtenburg a écrit : > On 2011-11-16 12:36, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > I’d say it is a bug in xdg-open to rely on mailcap as a fallback. > > It should use the mechanisms in gio as soon as they are available. > > xdg-open uses mailcap as a first choice, not a fallback, if there is > no DE detected.
Yes this is what I meant. It could be used as a fallback, but using it by default if no DE is detected is absolutely brain-dead. > Note that xdg-open is a shell script - it just detects the DE and > calls the appropriate thing. With no DE, it first tries run-mailcap > and then mimeopen. There doesn't appear to exist a "gio-open" or > similar so it couldn't easily use gio. That would be gvfs-open in gvfs-bin. Unlike run-mailcap or whatever crap, it will correctly handle defaults depending on the current DE. > Also, I don't seem to have > anything that appears to allow opening files using a MIME database in > /usr/lib/gio/modules, so that would clearly not work here. I'm not > sure in what environment it *would* work; maybe yours? It’s builtin in gio, what are you looking for in /usr/lib/gio/modules? -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `-
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