Re: spatial stuff detail

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 02:39, Arik Devens wrote:
> The feature I most wish GNOME supported from RoX is the idea of an 
> application as a directory. Mac OS X does this too, and it makes WAY 
> more sense then the way most of Linux currently works from a new user 
> perspective.
> 
> Installing new programs is one of the least new-user-friendly aspects 
> of Linux right now, and application-as-directory packing would make 
> this problem disappear.

In order to make this work *really* well, we'd need a lot more than just
GNOME supporting it.  Apps/utilities installed this way would need to be
found by the shell, documentation by the 'info' command and other
documentation browsers, etc.

I believe the LinuxStep project covered the details in a bit more depth
on their website.

> 
> Arik
> 
> On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 03:45  am, Michele Campeotto wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 08:58, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> >> May people, like tigert for instance never use the open dialog. They
> >> just drag stuff from the file manager to the apps.
> >
> >   (me too)
> >
> >> Of course, there will still be some amount of navigational UI in the
> >> open dialog, and you can't really get rid of the save dialog...
> >
> >   Well, while talking pie-in-the-sky...
> >     http://rox.sourceforge.net/screens/saving.png
> >   The explanation is here:
> >     http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/WhatIsRox
> >
> >   (Hey, RoX is really nice, but they should really grab some of GNOME's
> > icons...)
> >
> > -- 
> > Michele Campeotto <ml micampe it>
> >
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