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To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Subject: Re: Adding desktop support 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:04:04 +1000."
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:36:14 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <199904281004.UAA27348@cimlogic.com.au> John Birrell writes:
: The FreeBSD kernel is not affected. I'm not proposing to specify what
: the desktop looks like, just the information that is made available
: to the desktop programs.

I really like this idea.  For too long there have been too many
kludges to get around not having this infomation co-located with the
executable.

After all, we're just talking an icon here.  Window managers can
display it, or override it as they see fit.

Warner


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