osx-like "open" in ubuntu/gnome

[Luis]

On 10/13/06, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 13 October 2006 01:03, Luis wrote:
> > I also like 'open' a lot on OS X. I was actually surprised to see that
> > gnome-open does the same.
[snip]
> My quick testing shows gnome-open opens files based on gnome preferences.
> e.g. gnome-open someTextFile.txt starts up gedit.
> Double clicking the same file gives you Kate.
> konqueror someTextFile.txt gives you Kate embedded in Konqueror,
> so that's not it either.

Ah, that explains it... I was assuming that gnome-open would simply
look for /usr/share/applications and "know" the mime types for the
magic of e/a fie, and then open the given file with the app that the
user already knows should open that type of file. Meaning that KDE and
Gnome would both share the same MIME (or whatever is called) database.

Oh well, one day things would be "normal".

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Luis Mondesi
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