Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:51:31 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: piotr.smyrak@heron.pl Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDify Gnome - a suggestion Message-ID: <415DB543.2070308@marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20041001142322.M43776@heron.pl> References: <20041001142322.M43776@heron.pl>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 piotr.smyrak@heron.pl wrote: | Hi, | | This is a thought that just happened to me during roaming and experiencing my | newly built 2.8. | | Please have a look here: | http://eko.org.pl/~smyru/shots/mime-dialog-idea.png | | This is a dialog that assign new application to a MIME type. It defaults to /usr/bin, | which I find a heavy linuxism, where the apps lay together with the base. I have no | idea how much work that would need - but since FreeBSD is more strict and | predictable when it comes to filesystem layout, I would like to suggest pointing it by | default to /usr/X11R6/bin. | | This is the location where most of the X base apps exist, and I think it would be a | great benefit to system knowledge agnostic users, that have no knowledge besides | the graphical interface. | | I suppose there are some more fields where this might be a good thing also, but it is | the one that happened to me. What if we added some default bookmarks that point to X11 Apps and Local Apps (names subject to change)? I think this would be possible, but I haven't really investigated. Joe | - -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBXbVDb2iPiv4Uz4cRAqTbAJ9rngYx4kPiyVybmoyj6vEHWeBajQCffgI4 oz68jm3ByeY8WD8rKuzeMdk= =VyPn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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