From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 29 12:44: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from moebius2.Space.Net (moebius2.Space.Net [195.30.1.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E0441539A for ; Thu, 29 Apr 1999 12:43:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maex@Space.Net) Received: (qmail 4935 invoked by uid 1013); 29 Apr 1999 19:43:47 -0000 Message-ID: <19990429214347.T384@space.net> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 21:43:47 +0200 From: Markus Stumpf To: John Birrell , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding desktop support References: <199904280647.QAA26783@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199904280647.QAA26783@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 04:47:35PM +1000 Organization: SpaceNet GmbH, Muenchen, Germany Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ok, I'll start from scratch ;-) 1) If I compare the number of binaries to the number of datafiles (.txt, .ps, .whatsoever) on the systems I have access too, the latter outnumber the binaries by FAR. I can't see the advantage of having icons defined only for the executables in a filesystem browser. You can't use .icons sections with "datafiles", so you need some mapping mechanism for them anyway. 2) How often do you REALLY copy or link binaries from /bin to /somewhereelse and therefor loose a "external" mapping? (Can't remember ever having done this except for chroot()ed environments in FTP servers for the last 10 years or so). 3) GNOME has a real tricky way to find which application/datafile should be represented by which icon. (They use file extensions and file(1) and a database of filenames that can be managed by the user and overrides the defaults). And they have a management tool thats aids you in configuring that. Take a look at "gmc" (Midnight Commander), it is a filesystem browser that really does it nicely. \Maex -- SpaceNet GmbH | http://www.Space.Net/ | Yeah, yo mama dresses Research & Development | mailto:maex-sig@Space.Net | you funny and you need Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 | Tel: +49 (89) 32356-0 | a mouse to delete files D-80807 Muenchen | Fax: +49 (89) 32356-299 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message