Re: GnomeProgram in libgnome

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Bastien Nocera wrote:

> 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 ?)
> 

It might be GNU, but it is also most midbogglingly grossly broken. 

> Cheers
> 

	Sander

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