On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 20:41 -0400, Philip Ganchev wrote: > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Shaun McCance<[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 22:39 +0200, SzG wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Yes I agree, there is a built-in solution for each use case. But I'm so > >> extremely lazy that I preferred working day and night on my "go" script > >> instead of having to memorize a few hotkeys. But now it's paradise! > >> > >> One remark: typing "foo" in a terminal will start the GTK application > >> "foo", but you will have 2 problems: > >> > >> * your terminal gets blocked while "foo" is running > >> * closing your terminal will kill "foo" > >> > >> But "go foo" will do the job perfectly. > > > > So will "foo&". I don't want to rain on your parade, because > > this seems like a neat project. But it seems to me that the > > reason the "start" command on Windows needs to handle programs > > is that it's hard to launch programs otherwise. It's a solution > > for a problem that we don't have. > > Not only. It's also a solution to problems like "What program do I use > to open PDFs again? PDF... PDF... XPDF? No, this is Gnome. Guess I > have to mouse through the main menu... Oh of course! Evince - how > could I forget? evince mydocument.pdf." Similar problems exist for > ps, all image types, html, "office" document formats, and even text. > Why do I have to think about what program to use, when >90% of the > cases all I want to do with a PDF document is to display it with the > default PDF viewer? Similarly for office documents, etc.
Sorry, perhaps I didn't say what I meant clearly enough. I'm not disputing the utility of a program that can launch the right application for a given file or URL. In fact, I use gnome-open fairly frequently for exactly that. I'm saying I don't see the value in running the *program* foo with "go foo", instead of just "foo". Unlike on Windows, applications on *nix systems have a binary installed in the executable path. You don't need an extra program to run them. You just run them. Is that more clear? -- Shaun _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
