https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462256 User chappa@washington.edu added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462256#c2 --- Comment #2 from Eduardo Chappa <chappa@washington.edu> 2009-01-23 22:30:42 MST --- (In reply to comment #1)
The default comes from the text/html entry in /etc/mailcap, which pine uses when no url-viewers have been specified. This is not really correct, as that entry only means "a program that is able to display a HTML document" rather than "a web browser".
Here is a question. What is a mailcap entry supposed to do with a ".doc" file? Display its contents or also let you interact with the content? If you think it is the first, then antiword is your friend. Otherwise, openoffice is your friend. Similarly, what is the correct behavior to open a text/html file? If the intent is that the mailcap entry be only a viewer of the content, then no entry should let you interact with the displayed content (e.g. the image viewer should be in read-only mode, etc.) I do not know what the policy in SuSe is, but it seems to me that as long as it is consistently used, there is no problem. The code in Alpine assumes that the html viewer is more than that, that you also want to interact with the content (e.g. follow links in that content)
I think I'll fix it by adding an /etc/pinerc to the package next time I touch it and put some browser finding magic in there.
That is certainly one way to solve this issue. It seems reasonable, given the circumstances. -- Eduardo -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.