From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 01:46:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B237216A4C2 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:46:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7EFB43FFD for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 01:46:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-38lc0e8.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.1.200] helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19uplH-0002fE-00; Thu, 04 Sep 2003 01:46:40 -0700 Message-ID: <3F56FB83.E3C8F67F@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 01:44:51 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Diego Calleja =?iso-8859-1?Q?Garc=EDa?= References: <20030903224346.4bbbf208.aradorlinux@yahoo.es> <20030903232829.732e37d5.aradorlinux@yahoo.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a46922bf4fd535c83b81121c6b40964a28667c3043c0873f7e350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: Randi Harper Subject: Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:46:56 -0000 Diego Calleja Garc=EDa wrote: > El Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:02:04 -0400 Randi Harper = escribi=F3: > > What exactly is realistic about that? There's nothing wrong with > > reinventing the wheel if only works perfectly on one type of car. It > > doesn't sound like it was a very good wheel in the first place if > > that's the case. > = > Well, it's "being realistic" in the sense "you can't rewrite a entire d= esktop > software in two days". Gnome and KDE have been working for _years_ and = they're > very ahead of anything else you can find in the OSS world (GPL or BSD).= The first desktop I wrote took me two days. I used a product called "OIBuilder", and hacked up the "file" program code to make it into a library, and then I added a "type" column to the "/etc/magic" descriptions file that I then used to pick icons to use on the desktop (*my* ".doc" files displayed with an icon appropriate to their internal format, rather than with an icon picked on the basis of their file extension). I hardly think I'm unique in my ability to do this... 8-) 8-). -- Terry