Re: Image viewing - a different approach

Bryan Oakley wrote:
But... that's what was offered in this thread. On windows you "let OS to choose associated application" by calling "start". On the mac you call "open". On *nix there's some other way.

On Linux, at least, there really isn't one specific way. There's at best one way for each window manager, as I understand it. I.e. it's not built into the OS as such, but built into various window management layers on top, some of which (like twm) don't have the concept at all.

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