From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 10:55:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail0.atl.bellsouth.net (mail0.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D2814CF7 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:55:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-69-179.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.69.179]) by mail0.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA09726; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:54:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from wghicks (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA93179; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:56:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) Message-Id: <199904281756.NAA93179@bellsouth.net> To: Warner Losh Cc: John Birrell , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:36:14 MDT." <199904281736.LAA15179@harmony.village.org> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:56:24 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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