Windows uses "start". I honestly still feel the "open" command should be reserved for this. Maybe we should make a recommendation to distributions, but leave the choice up to them at least for the time being. J. Leclanche
On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Sanel Zukan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Fail to see the connection. I guess xdg, if it stands for X Desktop >> Group, would be obsolete soon if people move to Wayland or Mir based >> desktop. > > I doubt this will happen, for two reasons: > > * there is code and software written using 'xdg' prefix > (e.g. xdgmime) so unless someone feels extremely boring to rename > all of that for the sake of new technology, better spent time on > something else > > * how much Wayland/Mir will replace X, we will see. From my > experience, product that tries to fix too much and promises too > many things, well... > >> BTW, I happen to know one breakage caused by Linux not having open(1) >> like OS X. https://github.com/swaroopch/byte_of_python/issues/8 > > Does Windows has open(1)? Looks like these days people like to buzz > how OS X has this and that and we should have the same thing on > Linux. Why not use OS X instead? > > Best, > Sanel > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
