From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 29 3:33:19 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 BB76014EC8 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 03:33:16 -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 MAA19668; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:33:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA05126; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:33:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:33:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Tim Vanderhoek , Nate Williams , Joe Abley , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-Reply-To: <199904290337.UAA11634@apollo.backplane.com> 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 > After all, you might want icons for things other then files. For example, > directories, softlinks, unix domain sockets, devices. Whatever. > I think modifying the filesystem to provide a metadata extension for > files is ridiculous. Embedding icons in binaries also seems pretty silly You would not be modifying the physical structure of the filesystem, but rather, providing an optional stacking layer. - marius - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message