HowTo gnome-open "anything"

[xyz]

I was roaming the "ubuntu-fr.org" and found a post by BookeldOr that said gnome-open "n'importequoi" meaining that with the "gnome-open" command line, you'll open lots of stuff from a terminal.
I find this very useful; it may depend on the way you approach your OS, I guess.

So I tried a bit...

I have a FAT 32 /dev/hda3 partition;so:

th@luser:~$ gnome-open /media/hda3

or my external HD:

gnome-open /media/usbdisk

Now I'd like to have a look at my photos:

gnome-open /home/th/photos

Need to read a .pdf?

gnome-open file_whatever.pdf

This will open the file with your preferred pdf reader.

How about:

gnome-open ubuntuforums.org

No need for www...

Want to send an E-mail to your friends?

gnome-open mailto:yourfriend@hello.com

This will start the mail client you chose.

And so on...
I think this works with all mime types.

[pavel_kbc]

good tips . thanks

[kalikiana]

Incidently you can use 'exo-open' on Xubuntu in the very same way.

[~LoKe]

Not bad!

[Klau3]

How can I add a file to a new mail? I have written a script that enables me to resize pictures to a certain custom MB size. Next step is, that I want to add the ZIPed images to a new mail message. I tried with gnome-open but couldn't find a way how to manage it. A tip would be nice.

Klau3