From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 29 4:20:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C896E157FB for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 04:19:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:22:27 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761795F4@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> From: Ladavac Marino To: 'Thomas David Rivers' , mbendiks@eunet.no, nate@mt.sri.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jabley@clear.co.nz Subject: RE: Adding desktop support Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:18:12 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas David Rivers [SMTP:rivers@dignus.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 29, 1999 12:58 PM > To: mbendiks@eunet.no; nate@mt.sri.com > Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; jabley@clear.co.nz > Subject: Re: Adding desktop support > > > I point out that if the executable has no icon in it, then this > "overrides" from the window manager would come into play, right? > > Since the "overrides" have to be there anyway - what's the advantage > of putting the icon in the exe? > [ML] Convenience for the users. Just plain and simple. The same reason one has clickable icons in filemanagers/desktops instead of starting an application from an xterm command line. Don't ever underestimate the driving force of plain convenience (or don't you ever use icon clicks to start something under X?) /Marino > - Dave Rivers - > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message