Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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.).
notepad.exe has problems with non windows line ends. > Under linux, how do you know the users > favorite text editor? To show a readme.txt you don't need to open the favorite text editor. A browser could do the same. > 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. :-( Some don't even have X. > 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. We had this discussions already. So, yes and no. ;) Mattias _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
