Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:45:18 -0600 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.gdynia.pl>, Christian Walther <cptsalek@gmail.com>, Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Subject: Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots... Message-ID: <d7195cff0703121645wd3c810bu96a6f2ebec35b278@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070312141815.H64603@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <200703111301.55172.freebsd@dfwlp.com> <45F44A5E.9050904@cyberwang.net> <45F478DE.1020702@computer.org> <20070311233953.C64103@chylonia.3miasto.net> <45F4CEE5.7040005@computer.org> <20070312084742.Q26610@chylonia.3miasto.net> <45F54C91.4030309@computer.org> <14989d6e0703120605o4a67b370v3e252865dfb76aaa@mail.gmail.com> <20070312141815.H64603@chylonia.3miasto.net>
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On 12/03/07, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: . . . > PS. Because i don't get definition of desktop i used there and in other > posts: > > desktop is one complete full screen workspace. > > be it text or graphics doesn't matter. > > PS2. still waiting for precise desktop definition, because i think that > this term is regularly misused. It is easily as nephanous a concept as "Operating System" (which see: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A%22operating+system%22 ) (noting carefully that at least one of those items is the canonical definition of a kernel) (And more to the point, that virtually any explicitly named item could be deleted, and probably has been in some operating system somewhere). A concise definition is not really possible for "desktop" since it is not a technical nor scientific term. Unless you wish to define it dogmatically, in which case: good luck. In the sense of common use, a desktop is not more than a presentation of user applications. http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~vlibrary/glossary/#D -- --
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