Re: GNOME universe
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote:
>
> Aha! But you shouldn't name things like /usr/bin/panel if you expect
> to standardize things between KDE and GNOME. This is an important
> point, because the GNOME panel will already be called /usr/bin/panel
> and you'll have to name the standard something else.
>
> The current GNOME packages really encroach on namespace. I think it's
> rather poor policy, if you ask me.
>
If/when there is a standard for any of these things, there will be no
Gnome equivalent so it will not matter.
Something like /etc/mime-magic is meant to say "non-Gnome applications can
use this." And they can and should. They can even use the library code,
which is not Gnome-dependent.
Havoc
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