Cross-desktop helpers

Alex Graveley alex at beatniksoftware.com
Fri Dec 10 02:55:18 EET 2004


As I can see from the oddball and hacky suggestions in people's replies,
we really need something to provide this, and badly.

Gods of XDG, what must one do to create some momentum and actually solve
the problems?

-Alex

On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 13:00 -0800, Alex Graveley wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?
> 
> -Alex
> 
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