Re: how to open links etc

--- On Thu, 9/15/11, Benjamin Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Benjamin Johnson <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Dillo-dev] how to open links etc
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, September 15, 2011, 1:21 PM
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:34:33 -0400,
> Roger <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> >> On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:16:43PM -0400, Benjamin
> Johnson wrote:
> > 
> >> Easy solution: ask the user whether to open the
> file, or just save it to
> >> disk.
> > 
> > So, the prompt saves my butt 5% of the time, the other
> 95% of the time I'm
> > harassed by a prompt like in Windows.
> > 
> > IMO, configuring for the fewest clicks possible is
> best.  And like you said,
> > provide a file with an option to to link in external
> apps if the user so
> > wishes.  (ie mutt's $HOME/.mutt/mailcap is a good
> example)
> > 
> > Keeping a file type pointing to null or commented,
> gets default (download)
> > action?
> > 
> > I didn't want to say much more without being able to
> help code it, but I don't
> > want to see another prompt popping-up. (ie. Dillo quit
> prompt) :-/
> 
> Then add a "Remember this choice" option so it won't prompt
> you again.
> 
> I disagree that all prompts are automatically bad. 
> After a while they do get annoying (and there should be some
> way to disable them), but for new users the verbosity can be
> helpful.  More importantly, it avoids surprising the
> user when the program doesn't behave as expected -- it opens
> instead of downloads, or vice-versa -- and of course,
> different users will have different expectations for which
> behavior is "correct."
> 
> (In my own software, I always err on the side of verbosity,
> no matter how annoying it is to me personally -- because as
> the developer, I know how to disable it on my own machine!)

Is it possible to get either option (or both) into dillo3?

Best!