From: Guido S. <gui...@fr...> - 2002-10-30 20:01:48
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Am Mit, 2002-10-30 um 16.54 schrieb Jan Wagemakers: > > If we start using AppDir's for *all* installed software, it seems to me that > we must patch things like the bash-shell to make it easy to work from the > command-line. You can already download such a patch from Stephen Watson's page. It's really a very small patch, which won't break anything. > So, this means that because we use AppDir's we must change > other software too? That's the price to pay for a well integrated system. In Linux you have can choose between lots window-managers, file-managers, shells... But there is price for that: things don't work as well together as on commercial desktop OSes. Think of keyboard short-cuts. It's absolutely impossible to avoid conflicts between you desktop environment and the applications. > > And what about the PATH-variable when we are using AppDir's? Simply include the directories, where you have your appdirs. When I type ROX<TAB><TAB> in bash I get: ROX ROX-CLib ROX-Filer ROX-Lib ROX-Lib2 ROX-Session > This AppDir seems great to me for a new Linux distribution like > "ROX/GNU Linux", but in an existing distribution it brings IMHO lots of > confusion. Right. ROX-Filer can only be used to it's full potential in the context of a Linux Operating System as opposed to the Linux "distributions" people use today. -- Guido Schimmels <gui...@fr...> |