Re: [off-topic] Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
hi Ralf, On Fri, 09 Jun 2023 20:57:33 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Fri, 2023-06-09 at 20:59 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > God doesn't exist, > > Prove it. > > Hi, > > it's not worth the effort to refute every conceivable definition of God > in writing here and now, although it is inde

Re: [off-topic] Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2023-06-09 at 20:59 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > God doesn't exist, > Prove it. Hi, it's not worth the effort to refute every conceivable definition of God in writing here and now, although it is indeed possible, it's just as useful as refuting rainbow-puking unicorns or trying to convi

Re: [off-topic] Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
hi Ralf, On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 17:11:47 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > PS: > > "The American Lottery - all you need is a dollar and a dream. We will > take the dollar, but you can keep the dream." > - https://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html > > Doesn't that describe the desires related to FLOSS as w

Re: [off-topic] Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-09 Thread Shlomi Fish
hi all, On Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:39:02 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2023-06-08 at 15:45 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > you can fork FOSS whose devs you dislike > > Hi, > > only when 2 things come together > > 1. you must have the skills > > 2. you must have the time > you need2have t

Re: [off-topic] Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: "The American Lottery - all you need is a dollar and a dream. We will take the dollar, but you can keep the dream." - https://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html Doesn't that describe the desires related to FLOSS as well as anything else we need to know better? "If God exists and is the ego-mania

Re: [off-topic] Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2023-06-08 at 15:45 +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > you can fork FOSS whose devs you dislike Hi, only when 2 things come together 1. you must have the skills 2. you must have the time A third point, hardware, completely disregarded. I don't mean the driver problem, but the variety of hardw

Re: [off-topic] Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Ralf, On Sat, 03 Jun 2023 09:47:26 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2023-06-03 at 06:25 +, Duncan wrote: > > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > > and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman > > The software market has changed significantly. In rea

[off-topic] Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-03 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-06-03 at 06:25 +, Duncan wrote: > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- > and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman The software market has changed significantly. In reality, some companies have recognized the gap in the market and are therefore ad

Re: desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-02 Thread Duncan
Alexander Puchmayr posted on Fri, 02 Jun 2023 13:04:46 +0200 as excerpted: > Hi there, > > I'd like to use a shared nextcloud folder to deploy clickable shortcuts > to certain programs with some pre-defined arguments (e.g. urls to some > web-sites, > programs which need some extra arguments such

desktop icons with relative path to .desktop file

2023-06-02 Thread Alexander Puchmayr
Hi there, I'd like to use a shared nextcloud folder to deploy clickable shortcuts to certain programs with some pre-defined arguments (e.g. urls to some web-sites, programs which need some extra arguments such as a session specifier or the like). Using .desktop files seems to be the perfect s