It is ridiculous that open points to openvt instead of something like xdg-open. I'm going to have to request a concrete example as well.
Here we are touting that Ubuntu is a "user-friendly" Linux distribution and open doesn't even do what most users probably expect. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xdg-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619913 Title: open should be an alias to xdg-open Status in “xdg-utils” package in Ubuntu: Opinion Bug description: Binary package hint: xdg-utils From MacOSX, many people are very used to the `open` command which behaves very similar to xdg-open. It would be nice to have such an alias or symlink by default. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: xdg-utils 1.0.2-6.1ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic-pae 2.6.32.15+drm33.5 Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic-pae i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Aug 18 17:16:14 2010 Dependencies: InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: xdg-utils To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-utils/+bug/619913/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
