From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 1:21:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBDB7154AA for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 01:21:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA27054; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:27:53 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199904280827.SAA27054@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-Reply-To: <19990428181336.A28746@gurney.reilly.home> from Andrew Reilly at "Apr 28, 1999 6:13:36 pm" To: andrew@lake.com.au (Andrew Reilly) Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:27:53 +1000 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, Joachim.Isaksson@ibfs.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 05:59:11PM +1000, John Birrell wrote: > > Just disk space = about 46 bytes plus the size of the XPM file. > > Is this how GNOME works? I'm pretty sure that it's not how KDE > or Motif works. Are you proposing the building of _another_ desktop > infrastructure? I'm not talking about the desktop itself, just the icon information that goes with an executable. How the particular desktop formats the icon is up to the desktop applications. > Besides, none of the executables in the standard FreeBSD > distribution do anything without arguments anyway, so you're > really only talking about X applications, aren't you? Even on > Windows, the command-line tools don't get their own icon. Providing arguments for an executable is a separate issue to browsing a file system. I don't want to cloud the current subject by talking about how a desktop application might allow command-line tools to be executed. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message