Re: how to open links etc

Benjamin wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:41:48 -0400, Jeremy Henty 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
> 
> Seconded.  The DPI itself is just an external program anyway, so we
> may as well cut out the middleman.

I, for one, am at least open to this in principle, for what that's worth.