osx-like "open" in ubuntu/gnome

[Luis]

I also like 'open' a lot on OS X. I was actually surprised to see that
gnome-open does the same.

On 10/11/06, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/10/06, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I think what you mean is the quicksilver run dialog on OSX.
>
> Nope - not what he means at all.  open in OSX Terminal.app can launch
> a program based on
> document type when you 'open' a document.
>
> What I want to know is - is there a Kubuntu equivalent?

[rant]
No offense, and not in a flame manner, but sometimes I wish Qt/KDE
didn't exist. I see so many duplicate programs... One day we will all
get along and there will be only one graphical tool that's well
supported and with a good license.
[/rant]

IMHO, gnome-open should work the same way in Kubuntu.


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Luis Mondesi
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