Re: crufty mhn.default.sh stuff

[Paul Fox]

Only thought so far:  should we still be suggesting acroread?  It's
not supported on linux, at least, anymore.

paul

david wrote:
 > I wrote:
 > 
 > > I'd like to use xdg-open as the primary helper,
 > 
 > That turned out to not work well.  xdg-open returns immediately and
 > launches the application in the background.  So we'd have to do
 > something to keep the content file open until the application has a
 > chance.  I've been doing that for my web browser by adding a small
 > sleep, but that doesn't seem like a good thing to set in stone.
 > 
 > And, if a message has many images attached, they'd all get opened
 > almost at once.  I prefer to look at them one at a time.
 > 
 > And the same for open(1) on macOS.  It has a -W option to wait, but
 > that has another downside:  if the app stays open because it's in the
 > dock, open(1) doesn't return.
 > 
 > So I propose just these changes to mhn.defaults:
 > 
 > 1. replace use of netpbm with mpv --keep-open, preferring mpv over xv
 > 2. replace mpeg_play with mpv or mplayer (in that order) for video/mpeg
 > 3. remove application/x-ivs support
 > 4. remove text/richtext support
 > 
 > We'd go from the Current to Proposed configurations below.  [app1,
 > app2, ... appN] shows the order that mhn.defaults.sh uses when looking
 > for the helper for the specified content type and optional subtype.
 > 
 > CURRENT
 > [acroread, okular, evince, xpdf, gv]: application/pdf
 > [okular, evince, gv]: application/postscript
 > [ivs_replay]: application/x-ivs
 > [soffice]: application/msword
 > [splayer, raw2audio, cat >/dev/audio]: audio/basic
 > [adpcm_dec, play]: audio/x-next
 > [xv, netpbm + djpeg + xwud]: image
 > [w3m, lynx, elinks]: text/html
 > [richtext, rt2raw]: text/richtext
 > [mpeg_play]: video/mpeg
 > 
 > PROPOSED
 > [acroread, okular, evince, xpdf, gv]: application/pdf
 > [okular, evince, gv]: application/postscript
 > [soffice]: application/msword
 > [splayer, raw2audio, cat >/dev/audio]: audio/basic
 > [adpcm_dec, play]: audio/x-next
 > [mpv --keep-open, xv]: image
 > [w3m, lynx, elinks]: text/html
 > [mpv, mplayer]: video/mpeg
 > 
 > Of course, the user can override any of this in their profile.
 > 
 > Thoughts?
 > 
 > David
 > 


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paul fox, pgf@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma)