On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:56 PM, Mattias Gärtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> :-) Like I said, Linux has a long way to go for desktop friendly apps. > > desktop friendly <> mono culture
I don't understand? What I meant by "dekstop friendly apps" is.... Take a simple example. Under Windows you are guaranteed that if you want to show a user a readme.txt file, you can call notepad.exe and the filename (yes I know you can do it in other ways too, but I did say this example is simple.). Under linux, how do you know the users favorite text editor? You can't assume 'gEdit', because they might run KDE. Oh, you can't even assume 'kate' because they could be running FVWM. When writing desktop applications there are lots of such cases under Linux. That's why I welcome any standardization under Linux, which desktop app developers can use. eg: xdg-open but clearly xdg is not on all distros. :-( I'm clearly not the only one thinking like this. That's also why Gnome and KDE themes are more interchangable. You can run KDE apps under Gnome, and they blend in quite nicely. Years ago, they didn't. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/
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