Re: app-encapsulation and transparent-install (MS is doing it)

["Geoff Harrison (mandrake)" <mandrake mandrake net>]

On Sun, Sep 06, 1998 at 04:49:11PM -0400, Todd Graham Lewis wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Geoff Harrison (mandrake) wrote:
> 
> > but seriously, isn't that more the job of your shell?  A good foundation
> > for the idea, but IMNSHO that's more controlled at the shell level
> > than at the desktop level.
> 
> Isn't the desktop the modern shell, the shell your Mom and Dad use?
> (Whoever earlier today said GNOME should let your Mom & Dad use Linux,
> I think that you were dead on, btw.)

remember, there's something running underneath your desktop, todd.
running underneath your desktop, running underneath your window manager, etc.


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