Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:22:50 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support (please don't) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990428131758.10204W-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <199904281736.LAA15179@harmony.village.org>
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On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. I really liked the idea at first as well, but the more i thought about it, the more it made more sense for it to go into /usr/share/pixmaps or somesuch. Also note that all userland programs (with the exception of dosemu) are command line driven. Running them by clicking on them in X will most likely do nothing. This doesn't belong in the base system, instead it's a standard should be proposed to the GNOME, KDE and other windowing systems people. I even thought of a "make buildworld PIXMAP=NO" option, but refering to my second point this really doesn't make sense especially in a command line driven enviornment like FreeBSD. thanks, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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