[489] in athena10
Re: nmh, glue scripts, and the mimeutils locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Mon Sep 8 14:55:57 2008
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:55:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@mit.edu
cc: athena10@mit.edu
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Can we just use gnome-open for everything?
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Geoffrey Thomas
geofft@mit.edu
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, ghudson@MIT.EDU wrote:
> In Athena 9.4 we have a bunch of attachandrun scripts for the
> mimeutils locker. They have names like show-audio, show-msword,
> show-pdf, etc.. I don't know how well they will work on an Athena 10
> machine.
>
> Generally speaking, Ubuntu is much better at dealing with attachments
> than we are, at least in a graphical environment. However, I believe
> in Athena 9.4 nmh is a consumer of the mimeutils locker scripts. Does
> anyone (such as mitchb) know what the current status of nmh attachment
> handling is in Debathena?
>
