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little productivity thing for linux that i would like: terminal integration of the XDG (?) "Recent" folder. make it an actual Folder ~/Recent with links to the files, or a FUSE fs. i often have to integrate console and desktop tools and this would make it less painful.

also would be nice to have a little more mouse interactivity integration in terminals. when i type `ls`, give me an icon next to each result that has a context menu or lets me drag that file handle to another app, or copy the path / open with. i.e. make a hybrid of file explorer and terminal.

@mntmn You should look at midnight commander `mc`.

While not drag and drop, it is a more hybrid version of a file explorer and terminal. I have long thought of experimenting with a more modern take on the Norton Commander layout.

@mntmn And i have `xdg-open` aliased to `open`. Which is one of my most used shortcuts. Any file i want to touch graphically is just a `open image.jpg` away.

Also really handy is to do `open .` to open the current folder in your file manager.

@soupglasses ohhh yeah i used to do that a lot on mac os

@mntmn I have also created a `l` shortcut to print directories and pager print files for me.

I have also had the thought to create an `edit` shortcut that could open a wide variety of files for editing explicitly (nvim, gimp, audacity, etc). This however im uncertain if XDG can handle, and would require my own lookup table for mimetypes. :revblobfoxread:

@soupglasses the latter is really interesting. i have a feeling that xdg mimetypes are constantly messed up. so a replacement that you can only set up explicitly/where explicit manual rules have priority would be nice.

Sofie 🏳️‍🌈

@mntmn This is something i am personally angry at. Especially with regards to wine packaging.

I really do think one can easily solve a lot of xdg mimetype mismatches by packaging for usability, rather than packaging for what upstream gives you.

:blobfoxnotlikethis:

@soupglasses @mntmn ^this
> xdg-open opening up my .xml with wInE-eXpLoReR