From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 29 6:28:57 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 BE0DE15835 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 06:28:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pixel@excalibur.oceanis.net) Received: (from pixel@localhost) by excalibur.oceanis.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA06508; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 13:28:41 GMT From: Emmanuel DELOGET Message-Id: <199904291328.NAA06508@excalibur.oceanis.net> Subject: Re: Adding desktop support In-Reply-To: <199904291321.JAA21156@lakes.dignus.com> from Thomas David Rivers at "Apr 29, 1999 9:21:42 am" To: rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:28:41 +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 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. -> -> While this is certainly true... it seems to be the case that -> very few of them actually do it. Enlignenment, for example, already check the return code of some proggies. If the future WindowMaker 0.54.0 does not do this, we'll propose it to them (it's very simple, in fact). Others will probably follow... [I don't speak of these old [c]twm, or fvwm(2|95) based wm's...]. -> -> - 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