Re: links

[<nuke bayside net>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 1998, Gary V Vaughan wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 12, 1998 at 11:34:43AM +0000, nuke@bayside.net wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Josh Yelon wrote:
> > 
> > > Why not just generate small scripts? 
> > > [snip]
> > 
> > i don't think the idea of running an extra process (/bin/sh) for every
> > Gnome program you want to run is such a smart idea. remember that things
> > have to be very compact, and well written
> 
> How about:
> 
> 	#!/usr/local/bin/gnome-launch-app
> 	# <parsable comments ignored by above shell>
> 	# non_environment_var=value
> 	ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE=some_value
> 	execl /usr/local/bin/gemvt gemvt --execute /bin/tcsh
> 
> Where the gnome-launch-app is a minimalist executable which will ignore lines
> with a `#' in column 1, treat lines with an `=' as environment setters, and 
> execl as a wrapper for the execl in the C library.
> 
> That's pretty compact! Did I miss anything?

now *THAT* is what we're aiming for. a simple gnome-launcher would be
perfect.
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