Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:58:03 +0200 (MET DST) From: Emmanuel DELOGET <pixel@DotCom.FR> To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers Mail List) Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Message-ID: <199904280858.IAA11087@excalibur.oceanis.net> In-Reply-To: <199904280827.SAA27054@cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Apr 28, 1999 6:27:53 pm"
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As the well known John Birrell said...
->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.
Since the graphic interface and the system are separated,
I do not understand the *real* value of this (putting
an icon in the exe). A lot of window manager are
able to create a exe/pixmap array to handle these particular
associations.
I think it would be better to hack such window manager (this
would let the users choose their icons if they want, and that
should be (I think) a better solution. You may work with the
(example) Window Maker people and provide a ${KnownCommercialOsName}
compatibility mode (... not sure they will accept... Those
linux folks are rather... anti-${KnownCommercialOsName} :)
->
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->
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