From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 6:33:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 567B415274 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 06:33:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@lake.com.au) Received: from m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20]) by m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id XAA11772 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:33:06 +1000 (EST) X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-From: andrew@lake.com.au X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-To: X-BPC-Relay-Sender-Host: m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20] X-BPC-Relay-Info: Message delivered directly. Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-51-95.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.51.95]) by m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id XAA27834 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:33:05 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 31400 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Apr 1999 13:33:07 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:33:07 +1000 To: Duncan Barclay Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Message-ID: <19990428233307.B30171@gurney.reilly.home> References: <199904280647.QAA26783@cimlogic.com.au>; <19990428222020.A70537@clear.co.nz> <199904281323.GAA25328@mailgate.cadence.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199904281323.GAA25328@mailgate.cadence.com>; from Duncan Barclay on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 02:23:52PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 02:23:52PM +0000, Duncan Barclay wrote: > I whole heartadly support John's idea and would like to add support > for the ideas of taking with further to encode whatever to get rid of > the obscene hack that is file extension -> action databases in > current desktops. I think that there's a big difference between data file typing and application-specific icons. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message