Re: mime, freedesktop.org and mutt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday, May 26 at 06:50 PM, quoth Brian Salter-Duke: >Should I cross post this to mutt-devel? Yes. ~Kyle - -- I couldn't give you something mediocre even if that's all you asked for. -- Michelangelo, in The Agony and the Ecstasy -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iD8DBQFGWDTXBkIOoMqOI14RAjMsAKDss9/cLR0UPNGP7mcdFcKVkCvwJwCggO+8 KzcYnfG0Yk7+Z5+5LXMEmms= =f7ob -END PGP SIGNATURE-
mime, freedesktop.org and mutt
This message may be complete nonsense. I am trying to find my way into something. I understand that KDE 4 and GNOME > 2.4 use the freedesktop.org mime databases to determine the mime type. Has any thought ever been given to using these databases in mutt in place of mime.types when sending mail and in place of mailcap on receipt of mail and when using auto_view? The possible advantages could be that it is possible to sort out conflicting mime types by doing some 'magic' on the file itself on the fly. I come to this because I have just come back to improving and adding to various ways I put forward for dealing with chemical mime type: chemical/x-?? in mutt. A very common extension *.pdb for Protein Database Files uses chemical/s-pdb but this conflicts with *.pdb using /application/vnd.palm. We could possibly use the freedesktop mime databases to sort this and other problems out. There is a new project on chemical mime that is adding chemical mime types and information for parsing the files involved to these freedesktop.org mime databases. I hope I have not made too many mistakes in the above. I am still trying to get into it. Is this the linux way of the future for mime? If so, should we not be getting mutt to know about it, if we want to stay ahead of the pack on support for mime. Has anyone thought about this? Is it already in mutt? Is is possible or even desirable? Should I cross post this to mutt-devel? Brian. -- "A computer without windows is like a dog without bricks tied to its head" -- Unknown Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) Email: b_duke(AT)bigpond(DOT)net(DOT)au
