Re: preferred app question

[Peter Bloomfield <peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

Hi Jack and Ildar,

On Oct  1, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Ildar Mulyukov wrote:
> On 02.10.2011 02:51:49, Jack Ostroff (CT D8 TC) wrote:
> > I just received an email, with an attached wmv file.  Looking at the  
> > message parts, it shows as Windows Media video, which seems good.   
> > However, selecting it only offers "Open part with gmplayer" or "Save  
> > part."
> [...]
> > Where should I configure this stuff?
>
> This, again, is the MIME staff. And it's configured differently in  
> different distros. Balsa just follows system settings.
> Probably asking your distro gurus would yield better results.

Agreed, it is all connected with mime-types.  But ISTR cases where the two  
mechanisms offered inconsistent choices, too.  The button that's shown  
when you select a part offers the app that is suggested by  
g_app_info_get_default_for_type(); the right-click menu for the "Message  
parts" tree begins with this app, and adds any other that's suggested by  
g_app_info_get_all_for_type().

With Nautilus, the default app is set by selecting a file of the relevant  
type, then 'Properties':'Open with' on the context menu for that  
file--which I find really obscure, but is apparently acceptable to the UI  
gurus.  The other apps might be found by searching *.desktop files for  
apps that declare that they can handle the mime-type--I'm not sure.  How  
it's all handled with other file managers is a mystery to me.

HTH!

Peter