On Sunday 14 February 2010 16:40:01 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Just to bring this back to your original statement of Unix philosophy. > > IPC on modern desktops conforms exactly to the Unix philosophy. > > On dbus, everything's a file ?
You are either ignorant, or trying to be a jackass. Either way, it's obvious you do not underatand Unix philosophy "Everything is a file" is but one of many engineering concepts underpinning Unix. I really don't have the inclination to delineate them for you, I suggest you Google the topic - it will serve you well in future. Meanwhile, here's the short description of the main principle behind what I said: "A large collection of small programs, each of which does one thing well." The one thing an MUA does well is NOT popup notifications but dealing with mail - retrieving it (or causing it to be retrieved), sending it (or causing it to be sent) and displaying it to be read. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
