metashell - User Friendly Shell

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

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Fergal Daly wrote:
>...
>>>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:01:56AM +0000, Fergal Daly wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Seems like you could achieve much the same thing by having command
>>>>> (let's call it "o" for open so it's nice and short) that checks the
>>>>> mime-type of it's argument and opens it according to user preferences.
>...
> 5 "open" seems to be the obvious name for such a tool. It was the
> first thing I tried, it's what's left when you remove "gnome-" from
> "gnome-open", it's the verb that appears under every File menu I've
> ever seen. It seems quite discoverable.

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>

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

Cheers
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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