Cross-desktop helpers

[Jaap Karssenberg]

Alex Graveley
wrote on Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:00:59 -0800:
> I really want a way to make my users happy.  XDG's charter is to
> provide the mechanism for this.  Yet I still have no desktop-neutral
> way of accomplishing the following:
> 
> 	* opening a file browser for a given local directory
> 	* opening a web browser
> 	* opening an email composer
> 
> How can we fix this?

Add:
	* opening a terminal emulator (for example xterm) and have it
          run a command

Note that $TERM is no good for this because it is used to specify the
terminal type, not the command to open one.

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