RE: "proprietary" vs. polluting (was Re: propriatary question)

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

Well, since at one time or another non gnome programs are goning to provide
.desktop files, it would stand to reason to put them in

/usr/share/apps <hint share as in shareing and apps as in apps>

this dosnt seem to me to be polluting anything... it keeps things in there
rightfull place..
there should be no line between GNOME apps, KDE apps, Enlightenment apps, X
apps...
they should all just share a common set of .desktop files
that is why .desktop was chozen over .gnome


you say it is poluting your box... What happens when everything provides
.desktop files and you want to nuke gnome.... you dont want your desktop
files going...
you should be able to keep your desktop files....

a good example is enlightenment... It can read desktop files... BUT,
enlightenment dosnt require gnome to be on your system.

I agree that using /usr be a trash place is a bad thing.... but shared
desktop files belong in /usr/share/apps and not /usr/share/gnome/apps
because they are not a GNOME only thing



	[Fox, Kevin M]  
	[Fox, Kevin M]  
	[Fox, Kevin M]  

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Brandon S. Allbery [SMTP:allbery@ece.cmu.edu]
> Sent:	Friday, April 02, 1999 10:42 AM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	"proprietary" vs. polluting (was Re: propriatary question)
> 
> In message <AD2701C12BABD211B9710060974835A8A391@ercex02.bhi-erc.com>,
> "Fox, Ke
> vin M" writes:
> +-----
> | Why is gnome getting more propriatary?
> > ( . . . )
> | Session:
> | use to be /usr/share/default.session (good place)
> | now is /usr/share/gnome/default.session (y?)
> +--->8
> 
> There's a not-so-fine line between "proprietary" and spewing crap all over
> the system (which is egotism).  I don't grant GNOME permission to scribble
> anywhere it wants, and if it moves in that direction then it's gone.
> 
> (Although it's probably gone anyway, since it appears that parts of it now
> require egcs and we have no intention of supporting egcs across all our
> platforms in the near future.  This isn't open to debate, nor to the
> occasional idiot who flames me because I don't have 72-hour days in which
> to
> keep every single thing GNOME touches at the most absolutely recent
> pre-pre-alpha version so GNOME will compile.  But that's another issue or
> five.)
> 
> Also, calling an application suite which doesn't declare the entire system
> its own private playground "proprietary" is rather odd, especially given
> the
> number of *truly* proprietary packages which assume that /usr is their
> personal private trash heap.
> 
> Let's please lose the newspeak and consider *maintainable* systems.  If
> GNOME 
> won't play nice, it won't be playing at all.
> 
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