Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.

To: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, "Debian freedesktop.org maintainers" <pkg-freedesktop-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: use /usr/bin/open as an alternative for run-mailcap and others.
From: Jeremy Bicha <jeremy@bicha.net>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 19:15:42 -0400
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 4:54 PM Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> wrote:
> /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.

You should be aware that Ubuntu implemented this idea 2 years ago.
(I'm sure Ubuntu developers would love for this to be implemented by
other distros or further upstream.)

https://launchpad.net/bugs/1624022

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

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