Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:27:42 +0100 From: Stuart Henderson <stuart@internationalschool.co.uk> To: Andreas Klemm <aklemm@hightek.com> Cc: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk>, Dag-Erling Coidan Smrgrav <smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com>, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@u.washington.edu>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Subject: Re: Hacking Furiously for the Desktop Contest Message-ID: <35B4CF8E.DA61C891@internationalschool.co.uk> References: <rx4g1fv7f2l.fsf@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com> <XFMail.980721103734.dmlb@computer.my.domain> <19980721144434.10683@hightek.com>
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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
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