.. regarding opening the attached files ...

[David Belohrad]

Well that's why I'm asking. I'm kde user.  kde has its own handling of file associations. I assume that it is different solution than gnome has. Hence one might conclude that there is no standard how to provide associations and thus emacs one is as good as all the others 



Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy at nickurak.ca>napsal/a:

>No idea. I expect they don't use mailcap though... any KDE users here?
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>On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:54, David Belohrad <david at belohrad.ch> wrote:
>> Does kde use the same database as gnome?
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>> Jeremy Nickurak <not-much at trk.nickurak.ca>napsal/a:
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>>>On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 09:19, Jameson Graef Rollins
>>><jrollins at finestructure.net> wrote:
>>>> Also, when the cursor is on the button you can hit 'o' to open with
>>>> default mailcap app, 's' to save, and 'v' to view with a specified app.
>>>
>>>Is there any way of just getting it to ignore mailcap, and send
>>>everything to xdg-open? It's always bothered me that there are 2
>>>databases for file associations: mailcap (used only by Emacs, afaict),
>>>and the xdg/gnome configuration (used by everything else).
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