Subject: Re: bug#76120: [PATCH] Expose the native sharing dialog (macOS)

From: Björn Bidar <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 23:48:42 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Björn Bidar <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
>> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:45:04 +0200
>> 
>> If only want to add equivalent features why not add a menu entry which
>> uses xdg-open on Linux and open(1) on macOS? The open shell command on
>> macOS is the 100% equivalent to xdg-open on Linux.
>
> We could do both.  But please don't interpret "equivalent" too
> literally.

I'm only interpreting it literally to the point that using the NS API
directly is an improvement over using xdg-open/open.

An improvement for a non-free platform.