On 2011-11-16 13:18, Josselin Mouette wrote: > First of all, please use a mail client that honors Reply-To > correctly.
Which would currently have this bug in there twice, oddly enough. I intentionally used reply-all since I had previously been requested to do that when discussing bugs. > 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. You said it was a bug to "rely on mailcap as a fallback". Did you drop a word? /etc/mailcap has been a primary way to resolve MIME for a loooong time now. Using it is now brain-dead? This is what I was asking - when did it become Debian's policy not to support mailcap? Or is this just a single-app initiative? >> 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. So what you're saying is, if Gnome isn't running, it should use a Gnome tool to open things? xdg-open uses gvfs-open if Gnome is running and does not use it if Gnome isn't running, presumably under the reasonable assumption that non-Gnome users are not using Gnome for a reason. I don't have gvfs-open installed and I would rather keep my system as Gnome-free as possible. Less random background crap for me, thanks. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org