Right now on Debian, this is happening with a lot of programs. For example,
www-browser launches the default browser and editor launches the preferred
text editor. This is all handled by /usr/sbin/update-alternatives. Do you
want more than that?
Dan
I think it would be easier to launch applications if you had the option
to run the default application of a particular type from a short,
generic, plain language command.
I am suggesting that it would be nice if, for example, you were logged
into a KDE session on some random computer and you entered "text-editor"
into the "Run Command..." box or in a terminal session, it would launch
a text editing program such as kwrite or gedit or whatever the user's
default text editor is. This could be implemented with symbolic links or
the alternatives system or perhaps some other way.
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