From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 1 19:51:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226EB16A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:51:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (creme-brulee.marcuscom.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEBDF43D49 for ; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:51:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.2] (vpn-client-2.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.2]) i91JnvUY019679; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 15:49:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Message-ID: <415DB543.2070308@marcuscom.com> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:51:31 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Macintosh/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: piotr.smyrak@heron.pl References: <20041001142322.M43776@heron.pl> In-Reply-To: <20041001142322.M43776@heron.pl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDify Gnome - a suggestion X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2004 19:51:34 -0000 -----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-----