Re: how to open links etc

--- On Wed, 9/14/11, Benjamin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Benjamin Johnson <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Dillo-dev] how to open links etc
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2011, 4:18 PM
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:41:48 -0400,
> Jeremy Henty <onepoint-YprzHiG/[email protected]> 
> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Globe Trotter wrote:
> >
> >> Sorry to ask something perhaps really dumb, but
> when I click on some
> >> links,  eg a  pdf  file, I 
> get prompted  to  save the  file. Is 
> it
> >> possible for me  to transfer the file
> to  some external program (say
> >> /usr/bin/epdfview)  to  open 
> after  download?  Does  this  have 
> to
> >> programmed in somewhere?  Where? As a dpi?
> If  the latter, where are
> >> the instructions?
> >
> > I think that  the DPI interface is perhaps 
> overly complicated for the
> > common case  where we just want to  save the
> data to  a temporary file
> > and  point some  external program 
> at  it.  Perhaps  the config  could
> > specify a map from MIME types to helper functions,
> eg:
> >
> >     application/pdf = epdfview %s
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Jeremy Henty
> 
> Seconded.  The DPI itself is just an external program
> anyway, so we may as  
> well cut out the middleman.

Is this something that is easily done? If so, where?

Many thanks!