metashell - User Friendly Shell

[Jan Claeys]

Op maandag 28-01-2008 om 09:43 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Matthew
Paul Thomas:
> FWIW, it's also what Darwin uses (and NextStep before it used) for the
> same purpose.
> <http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/open.1.html>

Also, 'fish' has 'open' as a built-in.
<http://www.fishshell.org/user_doc/commands.html#open>

> Whatever the word chosen, I think prepending "gnome-", "xdg-", or
> anything like that is exposing an irrelevant implementation detail.

+1

I would be happy to have an "alternative" setting to point to gnome- or
xdg- applications as the user/sysadmin prefers though...


-- 
Jan Claeys