Re: [Usability] GNOME Command line interface

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

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.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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