metashell - User Friendly Shell

[Denis Washington]

On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 02:01 +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.
> 
> OK, it's 2 extra characters to type each time but on the upside,
> everyone gets the feature _and_ gets to keep using their favourite
> shell,

In GNOME, there is gnome-open which does exactly this.

Denis