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 that's not the point. The availability of > /usr/bin/open wouldn't preclude your use of whatever program you want to > use. What it would do is provide a convenient utility to support people > who don't (yet) have a preference for what application they want to use > to open a file. Maybe they have only basic needs, or are unfamiliar > with the file type and its associated commands. There are surely many > other reasons.
I’m a potential user of "open", since I currently use xdg-open instead, and it’s longer to type. Very often I can’t or don’t want to remember what the binary of the application is called, especially in case of GNOME apps, which no longer use the application name in the UI: eog, evince etc. -- Cheers, Andrej
