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

2020-10-27 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 04:27:17AM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : > > May I ask you for extra information on how important is it to support > URLs, and if anything beyond file:/, http:// and https:// would need > to be supported ? ... > Also, can you give me a pointer to an explanation of what

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

2020-10-14 Thread Marvin Renich
* Jeremy Bicha [201013 18:09]: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 1:52 PM Marvin Renich wrote: > > Describing a clear benefit to having both open and see would help > > immensely. Alternatively, convincing the mime-support authors that open > > should replace see would also work. > > This thread is

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

2020-10-13 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 1:52 PM Marvin Renich wrote: > > * Noah Meyerhans [201013 00:54]: > > "open" is a verb commonly used to describe the action of accessing a > > file in Linux. You used it yourself above, and it's one of the most > > prominent functions in the file API. It seems sensible

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

2020-10-13 Thread Marvin Renich
* Noah Meyerhans [201013 00:54]: > "open" is a verb commonly used to describe the action of accessing a > file in Linux. You used it yourself above, and it's one of the most > prominent functions in the file API. It seems sensible to provide a > tool that matches the verb most commonly used to

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

2020-10-13 Thread Andrej Shadura
Hi, On Tue, 13 Oct 2020, at 06:53, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 12:14:23PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > > That’s why I need to know the different programs anyway. Why would I go for > > something like open which can only use one program for the file type? > You wouldn't, but

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

2020-10-12 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 12:14:23PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > > is probably very handy. Even more handy is the fact that you don't > > really need to learn the command name of your image viewer and your pdf > > viewer and your html viewer and you .dia viewer and your .mp3 player > > and every

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

2020-10-09 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2020-10-09 calumlikesapple...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, 2020-10-08 at 18:45 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: >> I do not get the reason for this change. Surely we do not expect >> people to manually type >> open penguin.jpeg [...] > I disagree. If you are developing an application, and are

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

2020-10-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Thanks you Simon, Jérémie and everybody for your feedback. > On Thu, 08 Oct 2020 at 05:54:27 +0900, Charles Plessy 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

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

2020-10-09 Thread Carsten Leonhardt
(Re-added Charles to Cc as he asked in his original mail) Andreas Metzler writes: > On 2020-10-07 Charles Plessy 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

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

2020-10-09 Thread Abhijith PA
Hi, On 09/10/20 3:44 pm, Stephan Seitz wrote: > but mupdf doesn’t allow copy & paste. So if I want to do this, I need > another pdf program. Actually its possible. Right click + drag and Cntrl C will do the copy. But it will not be perfect as other PDF reader and also depends on the file too.

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

2020-10-09 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Do, Okt 08, 2020 at 22:54:32 -0400, calumlikesapple...@gmail.com wrote: is probably very handy. Even more handy is the fact that you don't really need to learn the command name of your image viewer and your pdf viewer and your html viewer and you .dia viewer and your .mp3 player and every

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

2020-10-08 Thread Nicholas D Steeves
Hi, On Thu., Oct. 8, 2020, 00:30 Nicholas Guriev, wrote: > > On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 19:17 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 7:15 PM Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > > You should be aware that Ubuntu implemented this idea 2 years ago. > > > > Oh, I misread. Ubuntu used /usr/bin/browse

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

2020-10-08 Thread calumlikesapplepie
On Thu, 2020-10-08 at 18:45 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > 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

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

2020-10-08 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2020-10-07 Charles Plessy 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. [...]

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

2020-10-08 Thread Nicholas Guriev
On Wed, 2020-10-07 at 19:17 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 7:15 PM Jeremy Bicha wrote: > > You should be aware that Ubuntu implemented this idea 2 years ago. > > Oh, I misread. Ubuntu used /usr/bin/browse but 'open' sounds a lot better. In my view, both of these words,

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

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 7:15 PM Jeremy Bicha wrote: > You should be aware that Ubuntu implemented this idea 2 years ago. Oh, I misread. Ubuntu used /usr/bin/browse but 'open' sounds a lot better. Thanks, Jeremy Bicha

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

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 4:54 PM Charles Plessy 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

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

2020-10-07 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 08 Oct 2020 at 05:54:27 +0900, Charles Plessy 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. > > As I maintain the mime-support package

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

2020-10-07 Thread Charles Plessy
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. As I maintain the mime-support package (soon to be