ProposalL /usr/bin/open as an alternative for xdg-open and run-mailcap.

2014-04-29 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello kbd maintainers, xdg-utils maintainers and everybody, The “kbd” package ships a symbolic link from /bin/open to /bin/openvt. “openvt” is used to start a program on a new virtual terminal, and according to its manual page, it has been renamed from “open” at the end of the XXth century. The

Re: ProposalL /usr/bin/open as an alternative for xdg-open and run-mailcap.

2014-04-29 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Charles Plessy Hello kbd maintainers, xdg-utils maintainers and everybody, The “kbd” package ships a symbolic link from /bin/open to /bin/openvt. “openvt” is used to start a program on a new virtual terminal, and according to its manual page, it has been renamed from “open” at the

Re: ProposalL /usr/bin/open as an alternative for xdg-open and run-mailcap.

2014-04-29 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at err.no writes: “openvt” is used to start a program on a new virtual terminal, and according to its manual page, it has been renamed from “open” at the end of the XXth century. The changelog of the kbd package confirms the impression that it has been phased out