Post A0ZWJuYecPxGDafUmG by Mr_Teatime@social.tchncs.de
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(DIR) Post #A0YKSoeM3rCBnNX9mq by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2020-10-26T11:38:58Z
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So hey, I want to launch the GNOME Settings app from the terminal, so I guess I just type settings...Linux Gods: no, you muggle, you type gnome-control-center, of course.#YearOfLinuxOnDesktop #consistency
(DIR) Post #A0YKSostBop0WSKlRQ by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2020-10-26T11:43:40Z
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@aral To be fair it would be pretty stupid if they called the binary "settings". There isn't just one desktop on Linux and if everyone started calling their settings app that, we'd have packages clashing with each other left and right.Also "gnome-control-center" still beats "open -b com.apple.systempreferences" on macOS and... uhm, I'm not even sure if you can do that on Windows 😂
(DIR) Post #A0YKSpD5ygz7X7mtw8 by talon@dragonscave.space
2020-10-26T11:52:12Z
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@fribbledom @aral ms-settings:[/path/to/settings/section] in windows... 😂
(DIR) Post #A0YKb3SItkBQ1ypFRo by GNUxeava@fedi.absturztau.be
2020-10-26T11:53:44.924291Z
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@fribbledom @aral for opening control panel, you type control.exe in terminal. To open Settings app, you simply press Win+I. Another name for Settings app is ImmersiveControlPanel. I don't think there is a normal way of running UWP apps except from Start and Shell:AppsFolder. The other method is doing some PowerShell sorcery. For the latter I think you are better off creating a PowerShell script that takes the name of the app from the user and does its weird stuff.Unless you are running a console app that requires to be run within a terminal, you can leave the stuff of calling apps to Win+Q, although it can be iffy at times but it learns to not repeat it next time.
(DIR) Post #A0YLOebVZNenQzmWDA by reto@pleroma.labrat.space
2020-10-26T11:57:40.613218Z
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@aral to be fair, people who don't know what the binaries are called are supposed to just use the app launcher (the gui thing) and there simply typing settings certainly brings up the desktop file you expect
(DIR) Post #A0YMGok85ZomW9dorA by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2020-10-26T11:44:26Z
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@fribbledom I know, imagine calling the binary for the Settings app, settings. Only an absolute idiot would do that.
(DIR) Post #A0YMGsdXc0vOasac8u by thibaultamartin@mamot.fr
2020-10-26T12:06:42Z
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@aral @fribbledom what is your use case for regular people exactly?
(DIR) Post #A0YvTlS18YlwT34vRY by brad@weeaboo.space
2020-10-26T18:47:00.952535Z
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@aral @fribbledom as long as you mean "gnome-settings" and not literally "settings" this idea isn't complete nonsense
(DIR) Post #A0Yvs9msJ3rOtaSvs8 by fribbledom@mastodon.social
2020-10-26T18:50:59Z
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@brad @aral Yes, that makes sense. Of course, the actual reason for it being called "gnome-control-center" is a tale of history & legacy, as usual.Back in the day, it used to be the Gnome Control Center, after all:
(DIR) Post #A0YwBl3BzFqPy2RcUS by tdemin@udongein.xyz
2020-10-26T18:54:56.886216Z
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@fribbledom @aral > if you can do that on WindowsWin + R, "control.exe", Enter. You can even omit the ".exe".
(DIR) Post #A0ZVnXZeXLEHfUhSC0 by amdg2@diaspodon.fr
2020-10-26T11:47:16Z
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@aral @fribbledom well it would the work of the distro to provide a `settings` command which would symlink to the user desktop environment settings app.If KDE and Gnome will never starts to provide `settings` command.
(DIR) Post #A0ZVshbUfqqADs1RUO by bilelmoussaoui@mstdn.fr
2020-10-26T11:41:42Z
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@aral why there should be a "consistency" in the executable file name? That's nonsense. Really.
(DIR) Post #A0ZVsn7w8elLLwEvFg by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2020-10-26T11:42:31Z
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@bilelmoussaoui I know, right? Personally, I think they should have called it tom-and-jerry.
(DIR) Post #A0ZVssfnWBoqYP7XE0 by bilelmoussaoui@mstdn.fr
2020-10-26T11:54:31Z
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@aral that would break every thing that calls g-c-c directly but whatever.
(DIR) Post #A0ZVxKc7ZqsAMvWUoS by narF@mstdn.fr
2020-10-26T12:41:52Z
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@aral Unlike all the other replies here, I actually agree with you. i don't know this app but Im assuming it has a GUI that you normally launch by clicking a Settings icon somewhere? Someone made that icon and linked it to your gnome-control-centre. Then I would propose that it is this person'a responsibility to also create a CLI link with the word Settings. So I guess you could submit that as a suggestion.
(DIR) Post #A0ZVxMtv4eIXShrjpg by narF@mstdn.fr
2020-10-26T12:41:55Z
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@aral (Which will be ignored because Linux nerds don't care about UX, lol)
(DIR) Post #A0ZVyLI6XrIKl5dtrM by tbernard@mastodon.social
2020-10-26T13:01:47Z
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@aral There is, of course, an issue for this from forever ago with 0 comments https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/844
(DIR) Post #A0ZWJuYecPxGDafUmG by Mr_Teatime@social.tchncs.de
2020-10-26T22:17:46Z
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@fribbledom @aral The "correct" thing would be to provide a name in the GUI which also works on the command line. So if the GUI said "Gnome Control Center", a user would have a pretty decent chance of guessing how to call it from the CLIJust tried to start wineglass from the CLI today: "com.github.aggalex.wineglass"Luckily, fish is still able to auto-complete "winegla<tab>" correctly! I think that's my new favourite shell now.