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    In an ideal world, Gnome and KDE would use xdg settings to choose which app to open a file, and would provide UIs to change xdg options. Then we could have just one settings database, instead of one for each DE. Alas xdg appeared too late. Commented Aug 7, 2014 at 17:31
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    In an ideal world, you wouldn't have three DEs. Commented Aug 8, 2014 at 18:20
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    @RussellBorogove - then we should all move to Windows. It's an ideal world. Commented Jan 6, 2015 at 17:32
  • @don_crissti I think this was more meant as "ideal for a developer or administrator". While it is a great thing to offer variety to an end user, it would indeed be a lot easier (yet not necessarily "better") for designers to focus on a single system. xdg-open is just one of these components which try to bring both ends together. Commented Jan 6, 2015 at 17:40
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    @John - about admins & various apps devs/designers: agreed... but then, upstream devs can only do so much. In an ideal world, instead of complaining about this or that, we would all contribute to upstream projects like KDE, Gnome etc to improve usability and iteroperativity between DEs. If all of us (millions) made just a small effort, all these issues would be solved in a few days. Commented Jan 6, 2015 at 23:21