2013/12/17 Matthew Paul Thomas <[email protected]>: > I wouldn't be so hasty in giving up on renaming. Ubuntu has already > been through something similar in 2006, when we changed /bin/sh from > Bash to Dash. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh> A bunch of shell > scripts broke, and people had to fix them. We survived. > > Renaming/aliasing xdg-open to open, you wouldn't have a righteous > Posix standard to stand on. But on the other hand, I'd guess many, > many fewer scripts would be affected. I suggest lobbying a niche OS to > try it and see what happens. If it works, the more popular OSes can > follow.
I have to agree with you, but I have strong doubts about just "renaming" xdg-open to open (without keeping xdg-open available) because of lot of 3rd party applications (including proprietary one) have standardized on xdg-open and not having xdg-open available will break them, for zero added value. -- Frederic Crozat _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
