Re: preferred app question

[Ildar Mulyukov <ildar users sourceforge net>]

On 03.10.2011 04:25:14, Jack wrote:
> Balsa uses (apparently) only the mime type as specified in the  
> message by the software that created the message and attached the  
> file.

Sounds true.

> This is usually sufficient, although I have seen windows based  
> mailers use mime types that have made me scratch my head in wonder.

This part is quite frequent. Windows broken MUAs frequently ignore MIME  
types standards.

> Then there is the file extension.  Finally, there is the "file"  
> command, which actually looks at the first two bytes (and sometimes  
> more) to determine the type.  (see "man magic" for more on this file)

Current Freedesktop mime implementation (that is used in current  
Linuces) deals with both file extensions and libmagic. But I don't  
think Balsa uses either of those.

> Part of my original confusion here is whether the file handler(s) for  
> a mime type are DE specific, which is why I had tried to use  
> gnome-control-center, and didn't understand why it didn't seem to  
> have any effect.  I  will later try the KDE mechanism, and then also  
> the "open as" property trick in both Nautilus and Dolphin.

Freedesktop implementation for both. Though distro-specific, as I  
mentioned before.
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