Re: My Little Wish List for Gnome

[Ian Campbell <ijc25 cam ac uk>]

> So rather than having a tag to "move emacs to editors" it is more a tag
> that specifies the location. That's much the same as having a directory
> structure. To be honest on this count I am not really bother, either way
> works (only thing is - with a single directory with many files it might
> take longer to open a particular file than with many dirs with few files -
> since I beleive the dir scan is a linear search).

oops..
I also meant to say that having a separate file for each app allows
install progs/`make install` to just drop in a file to register
themselves. Rather than parsing a file (which they would have to do if thy
were replacing a previous version of themselves)

Ian.