On 11 Aug 2009, at 01:41, Philip Ganchev wrote:
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?
You don't, usually... the only CLI command you usually need for doing that sort of thing is 'gnome-open', regardless of filetype/URI.
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