From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 20:46:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 885BA14CF8 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@lake.com.au) Received: from m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20]) by m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id NAA28415 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:46:46 +1000 (EST) X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-From: andrew@lake.com.au X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-To: X-BPC-Relay-Sender-Host: m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20] X-BPC-Relay-Info: Message delivered directly. Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-51-95.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.51.95]) by m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id NAA17499 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:46:45 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 38635 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Apr 1999 03:46:46 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:46:46 +1000 To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Message-ID: <19990429134646.C38300@gurney.reilly.home> References: <199904282017.NAA01044@dingo.cdrom.com>; <19990429083638.B34373.kithrup.freebsd.hackers@gurney.reilly.home> <199904282244.PAA28325@kithrup.com> <19990428232922.B47260@mad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990428232922.B47260@mad>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:29:22PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 11:29:22PM -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 03:44:47PM -0700, Sean Eric Fagan wrote: > > > > They're dropping it, and going with what NeXTStEP uses, for MacOS X -- each > > "application" is a directory, and has certain files in the directory. These > > /usr/bin/rm/icons/{icon1, icon2, ...} > /usr/bin/rm/executable > /usr/bin/rm/cmd_arg_format > /usr/bin/jot/icons/{icon1, icon2, ...} > /usr/bin/jot/executable > /usr/bin/jot/cmd_arg_format > /usr/bin/find/icons/{icon1, icon2, ...} Well, I think that looks significantly more hideous than the plan I suggested. Besides, none of /usr/bin are ever going to be executed by a double-click, and simply don't need that kind of elaboration. The things that need icons and what-have-you are the things that behave like GUI applications. Sure, that's most of /usr/X11R6/bin, but they already have all of those auxiliary files scattered around the place, and you don't seem to mind that. I'm not sure where John Birrel was going with his original proposal, but does anyone actually suggest that the way to operate a system is to have a file viewer open up and show icons for all of the utilities in /usr/bin? Sounds perfectly hideous to me. > I don't think I have that many inodes available... That strikes me as a particularly feeble argument. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message