Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:28:41 +0200 (MET DST) From: Emmanuel DELOGET <pixel@DotCom.FR> To: rivers@dignus.com (Thomas David Rivers) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Hackers Mail List) Subject: Re: Adding desktop support Message-ID: <199904291328.NAA06508@excalibur.oceanis.net> In-Reply-To: <199904291321.JAA21156@lakes.dignus.com> from Thomas David Rivers at "Apr 29, 1999 9:21:42 am"
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As the well known Thomas David Rivers said...
->>
->> As the well known Thomas David Rivers said...
->> -> As it happens, on UNIX, nope - I quit doing that... for one
->> -> very good reason. When I start something from an ICON, typically
->> -> stderr is directed "away". And, typically, UNIX programs (including
->> -> such mostly-GUI applications as Netscape) write useful information
->> -> to stderr.
->> Clicking on an icon and getting the result of the command
->> is allways possible. Classical WMs/desktops need work to do this
->> (redirect stderr to something, such as a file, and display
->> the content of this file if anything goes wrong). It's not
->> a problem.
->
-> While this is certainly true... it seems to be the case that
-> very few of them actually do it.
Enlignenment, for example, already check the return code of
some proggies. If the future WindowMaker 0.54.0 does not do
this, we'll propose it to them (it's very simple, in fact).
Others will probably follow... [I don't speak of these old
[c]twm, or fvwm(2|95) based wm's...].
->
-> - Dave Rivers -
->
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