From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 29 11: 2:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD77153B4 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:02:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA23423 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:59:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:59:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-Reply-To: <199904282244.PAA28325@kithrup.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > Andrew is correct. > > For example... Apple Computer currently has a system like what was proposed. > Actually, it's a considerably better system, since it's general-purpose, > extensible, and user-modifiable if desired, but it's along the same lines. > > They're dropping it, and going with what NeXTStEP uses, for MacOS X -- each > "application" is a directory, and has certain files in the directory. These > files include the icons (multiple ones for multiple uses, of course -- how is > the original propronent of this bloat going to handle that?), the executable, > and all sorts of other metadata. > > Other unix systems have done similar. > > Putting icons in the executable itself is pretty stupid -- it's a single > instance of something that a window manager can use, and there are much > less-invasive ways of doing the same thing. I'm not saying you're wrong, but I'd appreciate you trying better arguments. Above, I see "the other guy doesn't like it" and "it's stupid". Try a technical argument, without buzzwords, and you could convince folks. I don't care about popularity or IQ. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (Solaris7). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message