From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 19:48:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (unknown [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E48F14E5D for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:48:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA18781; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:45:47 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3727C7DA.F08AD1B4@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:45:46 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas David Rivers Cc: darrylo@sr.hp.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support (please don't) References: <199904290035.UAA18606@lakes.dignus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This entire discussion seems to have skipped over an important concept: is the icon an attribute of the executable, or an attribute of the file manager? This is a point that is often missed, especially by the microserfs in Redmond. I think the icons are more an attribute of the file manager, they are a virtual view of the file rather than an attribute of the file. The response that mentioned heir(7) was precisely right; UNIX already has a way of handling this situation and we should use and extend THAT appropriately. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message