Reinventing mailcap (was: Re: galeon 1.3 - feature killer?)

Tommi Komulainen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 10:05, Eivind Tagseth wrote:
> 
> All you say is very true of course, it doesn't make sense maintaining
> mime handling more than a few places, and it doesn't make sense wasting
> time reimplementing it all the time.  I do find it a bit strange though,
> that Gnome chose to reimplement the wheel (a.k.a. mailcap) and thus make
> sure that you _have_ to maintain these settings twice, once for gnome apps,
> and then again for all other apps... My old netscape handler settings
> were working just fine, _and_ could be shared by mutt...

I'm sure there were some technical reasons behind it and that it wasn't
just some genius' idea for keeping everyone busy for the unforeseen
future.  Although, I've yet to figure one out... :)


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Tommi Komulainen                                 [email protected]
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