I think he was only looking for free publicity
On 1/27/08, Fergal Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 27/01/2008, Forest Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > 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. > > > > This already exists. It's called "see", "edit", etc... > > > > Honestly, a whole shell to get functionality that's been around for how > long...? > > Absolutely. > > There is an underlying problem here, I knew that there must be a > gnome-blah to do this and I spent 5 seconds looking in the gnome-* > haystack for that needle before giving up. I also had a recollection > that there was a mime tool to do it but couldn't remember what it was. > > It also seems that some people capable of writing a shell didn't know > about these (or maybe they just wanted to write a shell anyway). > > So there is a problem of discoverability. > > Also, gnome-open reads from my gnome-prefs, see reads from mailcap. Is > there any syncing between these? Multiple tools to do the same job is > perfectly OK but multiple places to store the same preferences is not > much fun. > > "open" seems to be the obvious choice of name for such a tool but for > me, it's a symlink to openvt. Is there a good reason for openvt to be > holding this valuable name or is it just historical. The fact that > it's a symlink makes me think that someone has already tried to free > up "open". Maybe that could be completed and a discoverable, > alternatives-based "open" command could take it's place, > > F > > > > -Forest > > -- > > Forest Bond > > http://www.alittletooquiet.net > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQFHnKZdRO4fQQdv5AwRAshyAJ0VB7A6d8rQ+Y4hYNBehf246HnHkwCePLXW > > 3/MAEOoqMa35Dl0N2oRrhX4= > > =gwuZ > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > -- > ubuntu-server mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server > More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam >
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