BSDify Gnome - a suggestion

piotr.smyrak at heron.pl piotr.smyrak at heron.pl
Fri Oct 1 07:30:43 PDT 2004


Hi,

This is a thought that just happened to me during roaming and experiencing my 
newly built 2.8. 

Please have a look here:
http://eko.org.pl/~smyru/shots/mime-dialog-idea.png

This is a dialog that assign new application to a MIME type. It defaults to /usr/bin, 
which I find a heavy linuxism, where the apps lay together with the base. I have no 
idea how much work that would need - but since FreeBSD is more strict and 
predictable when it comes to filesystem layout, I would like to suggest pointing it by 
default to /usr/X11R6/bin.

This is the location where most of the X base apps exist, and I think it would be a 
great benefit to system knowledge agnostic users, that have no knowledge besides 
the graphical interface.

I suppose there are some more fields where this might be a good thing also, but it is 
the one that happened to me.

-- 
 Piotr Smyrak
 piotr.smyrak at heron.pl



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