From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 29 3:14:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from login-2.eunet.no (login-2.eunet.no [193.71.71.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 288EC1509D for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 03:14:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (mbendiks@login-1.eunet.no [193.71.71.238]) by login-2.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.0/GN) with ESMTP id MAA14256; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:14:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA04996; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:14:24 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:14:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Chuck Robey Cc: John Birrell , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I like this idea a great deal. I've long wanted some way to attach data > to programs, so as to add some continuing state. This is a first step. > If there was a utility, that would allow a user to replace the default > icon with one of their own choosing (if they care), then that ought to > eliminate any other problems. If the user complains about the extra > data space, then they could replace the icon with a null value, right? > I don't see a downside. Me neither. I feel we should provide a NOICONS tab in make world, but otherwise, I say go for it. We should additionally provide scripts to add and strip such icons, of course. - Marius - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message