On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 08:16:43PM -0400, Benjamin Johnson wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:11:14 -0400, Roger <rogerx.oss at gmail.com> wrote:
times, it's a pain because I can't do anything until the resource hog applications complete after their execution process. (Oh, including the wait for download because I thought it was an HTML page.)
Seems the only middle-of-the-road solution for me, disable the auto-open feature for PDF files and use Google "view as HTML" links (if my eye catches them!).
Easy solution: ask the user whether to open the file, or just save it to disk.
So, the prompt saves my butt 5% of the time, the other 95% of the time I'm harassed by a prompt like in Windows. IMO, configuring for the fewest clicks possible is best. And like you said, provide a file with an option to to link in external apps if the user so wishes. (ie mutt's $HOME/.mutt/mailcap is a good example) Keeping a file type pointing to null or commented, gets default (download) action? I didn't want to say much more without being able to help code it, but I don't want to see another prompt popping-up. (ie. Dillo quit prompt) :-/ -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/