Re: Is there a wider use for this utility?

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

FWIW, Malcolm, I believe there is a patch for such a thing in bugzilla
already that will be going into libgnome at some point.
Luis

On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 00:15, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> Last night I wrote a little command line application that can be used to
> open any file with the appropriate application for its MIME type. So,
> for example, when I run 'open myFile.py'
> it opens up my text editor of choice for text/x-python files and I can
> write some code. When I run 'open some-music.m3u'
> it starts my music player and 'open Photos/*.jpg' opens up all the jpegs
> in that directory. Anyway, you get the idea. :-)
> 
> (By the way, I have stolen this idea from something I saw in Mac OS X
> while watching somebody use it. They already have an "open" command that
> works exactly as I described above.)
> 
> It struck me today that this may be a useful utility for people using
> the accessibility infrastructure: if you already have a terminal open,
> opening up a file is a matter of one command (assuming your preferred
> applications for handling different types are already acceptably
> configured).
> 
> There is nothing new here, of course: it is just a command-line version
> of what can already be achieved with Nautilus, for example. And it is
> not, strictly speaking, in the GNOME Desktop spirit. However, I am not
> concerned about that sort of thing, since I wrote this tool to be able
> to work efficiently and only realised after the event that it may have
> other uses.
> 
> If there is a use for something like this, can somebody suggest where to
> put it. I am talking about one file; maybe 200 lines of code. Possibly
> with a man page if there is demand for it. So making a separate package
> is a bit ridiculous. However, I cannot think of any suitable module to
> piggy-back on. Ideas?
> 
> In the meantime, if anybody wants a copy, just drop me some email and I
> will send it to you.
> 
> Cheers,
> Malcolm
> 
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