(Re-added Charles to Cc as he asked in his original mail) Andreas Metzler <ametz...@bebt.de> writes:
> On 2020-10-07 Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> wrote: >> Hello everybody, hello Debian freedesktop.org maintainers, > >> /bin/open has been kindly freed a couple years ago (#732796) and I would >> like to propose to repurpose it as a standard command for opening files, >> like on Mac OS and NextStep before it. > [...] > > I do not get the reason for this change. Surely we do not expect > people to manually type > > open penguin.jpeg > > in an xterm window, because they do not know how to handle the file. > They will usually *klick* on it and some infernal magic will invoke the > correct program, be it named xdg-open or geeqie. Not everybody is an expert, and I think the proposal is for the benefit of those that don't or don't want to know/remember the invocation of the right program for every specific data format and using a short, easy-to-remember name for this purpose. And Re: Stephan's mail: if you want to use a specific program to handle your data for a specific purpose, "open" is not intended for your use case. I'd say you can safely ignore it. Regards, Carsten
