On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:24:51AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote: > > On 19.9.2013, at 06:34, Nick Dokos <ndo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > > > >> On 18.9.2013, at 14:14, Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ... > >>> I think that is expected. The bug is in the desktop specific open > >>> commands. Since you use none, generic open is used. That is simply a > >>> shell function, and does the right thing. > >> > >> Is there a generic open command in Linux? Why don't we use this instead? > >> > > > > Not really. There is a shell function called open_generic inside of > > xdg-open. I believe that's what Suvayu was referring to. But there is > > no clean way of calling it, short of pulling it out of the xdg-open > > script into a new script: as a general solution, that's hopeless. > > All right. Too bad. Thank you.
Nick said it accurately. It is part of the xdg-open script. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.
