> A danger in customizing shell-level commands is that shell-scripts can
> become hard to debug remotely and hard to share.
True. But you can even customize /bin/sh on Debian/Ubuntu.
> I'm personally in favour of keeping xdg-open and not making a grab for
> "open", because it helps people remembe
On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 00:28 -0600, Robert Qualls wrote:
> [...]
> open belongs in a separate project for high-level,
> user-facing commands that's basically just a bunch of wrappers that
> can be easily personalized by users and maintained over time. This
> way, the community can have a discussio
See: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s06.html
I think I already know the answer to both but I'd like to double-check.
1) When dealing with desktop files that have %u or %U in the name, if
the argument is a relative file path, the file path should be made
absolute wi
