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Author here. I made this little TUI program for managing default applications on the Linux desktop.

Maybe some of you will find it useful.

Happy to answer any questions.

Thank god it’s not another React, Solid, Typescript, what have you, web abomination inside the terminal (claude code, opencode, I’m looking at you).

Bravo!

12 days agoby piskov

I usually just edit ~/.config/mimeapps.list directly.

I can see how that tool can be useful, but only if it's included in official repos. Editing mimeapps.list is simpler than the hassle of downloading and building this tool.

12 days agoby coppsilgold

Just by reading the title, I’m sold! This should be very useful specially if you are not using a desktop environment that manages the default apps.

I always alias open to xdg-open, it’s so useful to open a file directly from the terminal.

12 days agoby jwrallie

Feature suggestion: The ability to add/remove more specific mime entries such as video/mp4

12 days agoby ranger_danger

At first I thought it was going to be some kind of solution to force all linux apps to adhere to the XDG Base Directory Specification, until I realized this related to a different specification altogether (XDG MIME Applications specification).

12 days agoby fouc

No one on earth has so far managed to get xdg default apps work on Linux. I've been failing since 19 years personally. If you've really succeded then congratulations!

12 days agoby sourcegrift

There are also replacements for xdg-open with more sane (in my opinion) configuration, like jaro: https://github.com/isamert/jaro

10 days agoby undume

These days I pretty much write this kind of software in ratatui with LLM when I need it. But the idea is nice. I like that. LLMs are the return of the value of the ideas guy!

But this seems human-written? Then it is interesting. Thank you for sharing.

12 days agoby renewiltord

Looks neat!

12 days agoby untech

Nice, but problem with all these AI coded TUI's is we will have hundreds of them, best to stick to the built in linux commands, add aliases/abbreviations (fish) if required, do you need a TUI for everything? Sometimes the answer to "Should I write this?" Is no

12 days agoby roman_soldier