Ugly Huge BSD Monster

[Terry Lambert]

Diego Calleja García wrote:
> El Wed, 3 Sep 2003 17:02:04 -0400 Randi Harper <sektie at freebsdgirl.com> escribió:
> > What exactly is realistic about that? There's nothing wrong with
> > reinventing the wheel if only works perfectly on one type of car. It
> > doesn't sound like it was a very good wheel in the first place if
> > that's the case.
> 
> Well, it's "being realistic" in the sense "you can't rewrite a entire desktop
> software in two days". Gnome and KDE have been working for _years_ and they're
> very ahead of anything else you can find in the OSS world (GPL or BSD).

The first desktop I wrote took me two days.  I used a product
called "OIBuilder", and hacked up the "file" program code to
make it into a library, and then I added a "type" column to
the "/etc/magic" descriptions file that I then used to pick
icons to use on the desktop (*my* ".doc" files displayed with
an icon appropriate to their internal format, rather than with
an icon picked on the basis of their file extension).

I hardly think I'm unique in my ability to do this... 8-) 8-).

-- Terry