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.