Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:56:24 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Message-ID: <199904281756.NAA93179@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:36:14 MDT." <199904281736.LAA15179@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. Definitely agree. > > After all, we're just talking an icon here. Window managers can > display it, or override it as they see fit. Well maybe not. There are quite a few other uses for a "resource fork". As I communicated to John in private email, it might be useful to consider generalizing his concept. For this first application I'd suggest some sort of directory within the section a stub entry pointing to the solitary ICON resource. Later some sort of resource compiler might be fashioned to generate and insert these sections into executable images. Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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