From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 29 6:14:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from excalibur.oceanis.net (ns.dotcom.fr [195.154.74.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3024B14D1B for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 06:14:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pixel@excalibur.oceanis.net) Received: (from pixel@localhost) by excalibur.oceanis.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA06217; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:14:02 GMT From: Emmanuel DELOGET Message-Id: <199904291314.NAA06217@excalibur.oceanis.net> Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-Reply-To: <199904291305.JAA20952@lakes.dignus.com> from Thomas David Rivers at "Apr 29, 1999 9: 5:59 am" To: rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:14:01 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers Mail List) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As the well known Thomas David Rivers said... -> As it happens, on UNIX, nope - I quit doing that... for one -> very good reason. When I start something from an ICON, typically -> stderr is directed "away". And, typically, UNIX programs (including -> such mostly-GUI applications as Netscape) write useful information -> to stderr. Clicking on an icon and getting the result of the command is allways possible. Classical WMs/desktops need work to do this (redirect stderr to something, such as a file, and display the content of this file if anything goes wrong). It's not a problem. -> -> So - after struggling for awhile with a particular problem, then -> trying to run the program from the command line and seeing the nice/helpful -> message which would have prevented a lot of frustration... I quit -> starting things by "clicking." -> -> - Dave Rivers - -- __________________________________________________________________________ Emmanuel DELOGET [pixel] pixel@{dotcom.fr,epita.fr} ---- DotCom SA http://www.epita.fr/~pixel | http://www.dotcom.fr/~pixel "On the last day, God created Linux. And Microsoft won its antitrust case" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message