Launching MIME helpers

[Ole Aamot <Ole Aamot nr no>]

Hello!

Simple question:

What's considered to be the Right Way to launch a helper 
for a given MIME type from inside my GNOME 2.0 app, 
preferrably "default" helpers?

I noticed Balsa does something like:

  gchar *mime_helper_exec;
  gchar *link_name;

  [...]

  mime_helper_exec=g_strdup_printf("xmms -p %s",link_name);
  gnome_execute_shell(NULL,mime_helper_exec);

  [...]

TIA.

-- Ole