From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 28 1:13:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDE9E154AA for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 01:13:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@lake.com.au) Received: from m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20]) by m4.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id SAA21063 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:13:41 +1000 (EST) X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-From: andrew@lake.com.au X-BPC-Relay-Envelope-To: X-BPC-Relay-Sender-Host: m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au [24.192.3.20] X-BPC-Relay-Info: Message delivered directly. Received: from areilly.bpc-users.org (CPE-24-192-51-95.nsw.bigpond.net.au [24.192.51.95]) by m5.c2.telstra-mm.net.au (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.6) with SMTP id SAA16673 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:13:34 +1000 (EST) Received: (qmail 28836 invoked by uid 1000); 28 Apr 1999 08:13:36 -0000 From: "Andrew Reilly" Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:13:36 +1000 To: John Birrell Cc: Joachim Isaksson , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Message-ID: <19990428181336.A28746@gurney.reilly.home> References: <00d801be914a$fcc79be0$8cbc2dc1@ibfs.com> <199904280759.RAA26957@cimlogic.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199904280759.RAA26957@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 05:59:11PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 05:59:11PM +1000, John Birrell wrote: > Just disk space = about 46 bytes plus the size of the XPM file. Is this how GNOME works? I'm pretty sure that it's not how KDE or Motif works. Are you proposing the building of _another_ desktop infrastructure? Besides, none of the executables in the standard FreeBSD distribution do anything without arguments anyway, so you're really only talking about X applications, aren't you? Even on Windows, the command-line tools don't get their own icon. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message