Bug#418274: please include desktop-open(1) command

Robert Millan rmh at aybabtu.com
Sun Apr 8 21:05:38 UTC 2007


On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 10:49:37PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2007, Robert Millan wrote:
> > Please, could you include a neutral desktop-open(1) command as an alias for
> > gnome-open, via /etc/alternatives ?  The idea is that KDE, etc can provide
> > their own, and so applications can ressort to using this instead of gnome-open
> > in order to support all desktops in one shot.
> 
>  Would xdg-open be enough? (xdg-utils)

Yes, but then we have the question on which package drags it in.  Do you think
that competes to libgnome, tasksel/desktop, or the application that ultimately
needs it?

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