From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 21 10:36:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02950 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 10:36:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (root@[194.72.37.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02916 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 10:35:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stuart@internationalschool.co.uk) Received: from internationalschool.co.uk (bamboo.tis [10.0.0.70]) by internationalschool.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA01040; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:27:12 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <35B4CF8E.DA61C891@internationalschool.co.uk> Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:27:42 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson Organization: The International School X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Klemm CC: Duncan Barclay , Dag-Erling Coidan Smrgrav , FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jason C. Wells" , Wes Peters , "Matthew D. Fuller" Subject: Re: Hacking Furiously for the Desktop Contest References: <19980721144434.10683@hightek.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andreas Klemm wrote: > > So I'd love to see an approach, where people think, what > functionality a Unix Desktop has to offer > - what client programs it would be absolutely excellent if there was a common interface that ports of window managers could provide to add and remove programs from their menu (in most cases a perl or shell script would be quite enough) - other ports/pkgs could gradually be converted over, coupled with an X-based package installer it would give a more user-friendly mechanism for downloading and installing applications than Microsoft has. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message