RE: gmc

["Fox, Kevin M" <kmfox bhi010 bhi-erc com>]

Is there a way to do somthing like
"gmc /usr/src"
to pull up a gmc window with /usr/src in it? this would be verry handy.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Fox, Kevin M [SMTP:kmfox@bhi010.bhi-erc.com]
> Sent:	Friday, December 18, 1998 8:03 AM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	RE: gmc
> 
> This is a little ugly from the command line.
> could gmc call new-instance or somthing when it first starts up, so
> new-instance gmc -whatever 
> becomes
> gmc -whatever
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Miguel de Icaza [SMTP:miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx]
> > Sent:	Thursday, December 17, 1998 5:01 PM
> > To:	hans.316@brfmasthugget.se
> > Subject:	Re: gmc
> > 
> > 
> > > > bash$ new-instance gmc
> > > >
> > > > Which will do the right thing.
> > > 
> > > Yuck! that does not seem sane, but then of cource, that could just be
> me
> > :)
> > > What is the advantage? What exactly does this new-instance thing do
> > anyways?
> > 
> > new-instance will contact the gnome-name-server corba service and see
> > if a copy of the file manager is already running.  If it is, we get
> > back a handle to the factory CORBA object and we ask the factory to
> > create a new window.  If the file manager factory has not been
> > started, the gnome-name-server will launch gmc for you.
> > 
> > So, it is the right approach without kludges.
> > 
> > (Now, I just need Elliot to rename goad-browser --with-repo-id to
> > new-instance).
> > 
> > Miguel.
> > 
> > 
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