Re: GnomeProgram in libgnome

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

Sander Vesik wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, James Henstridge wrote:
>
>
> > Argument parsing is the big one that needs to be done cooperatively in
> > order to be done right.  You really need to know of all the acceptable
> > options in order to parse the arguments.  For example:
> >  --foo --display bar:0.0
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> I *really* hope this is a honest typo and gnome programs do take only the
> -display (note one dash) option. Forking from the normal X conventions
> does not sound like a good idea.

GNU-style command-line parameters would give you --display or -d
Currently we have for example:

$ gedit --help | grep display
  --display=DISPLAY           X display to use

So we've been using this since probably Gnome 1.0. Maybe adding 
'-display' to please the ol' X user would be a good idea ;) (hmm, does 
popt allow this kind of parameter ?)

Cheers