Re: GNUstep directory layout (fwd)

[Nicola Pero]

I really meant this to go to the mailing list

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Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:57:31 +0100 (BST)
From: Nicola Pero <nicola@brainstorm.co.uk>
To: Matt Rice <ratmice@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: GNUstep directory layout


> assuming we aren't changing the topic for
> threadability,
> 
> I was looking at the gopen code the other day and I
> was reminded that you can also gopen foo.type
> so the bash completion stuff i wrote ignores this 
> which kind of annoys me.
> and then there's the order of this
> 
> doesn't really have any meaning to the above but,
> is this the first application alphabetically to
> provide 
> something for this type of file? I ran into this a
> while
> back with app wrappers and gworkspace an app wrapper
> coming alphabetically first, and a native gnustep
> application, I just nuked the app wrapper, and assumed
> if I wanted to do something like edit html vs view
> html
> I would drag and drop it to the correct application.
> 
> shouldn't we just associate .app .debug .profile with
> the same mime type and make one of them the default?
> like making the stuff below and above work together..

I'm slightly confused by what the question is :-) ... is there a specific
question indeed or it's just a way to start a chat ?  :-)

I've not had time to look at/play with your bash completion stuff btw,
while I'd definitely like to - it's *very interesting* - but given I'm so
late with everything, maybe I won't be able to do so before a while.


 
> 
> --- Nicola Pero <nicola@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > <<As a related issue, I also extended openapp to
> > be able to manage the
> > > case 'openapp Gorm' (as opposed to 'openapp
> > Gorm.app').  openapp will
> > > then automatically search for Gorm.app or
> > Gorm.debug or Gorm.profile.>>
> > > 
> > > What happens if Gorm.app, Gorm.debug, and
> > Gorm.profile all exist?  What
> > > gets precedence?
> > 
> > Gorm.app.
> > 
> > If you know what you want, you can still ask for it
> > - 
> > 
> >  openapp Gorm.profile
> > 
> > will pick up Gorm.profile and ignore Gorm.app and
> > Gorm.debug.
> > 
> > If you don't, then openapp will use the following
> > order of preferences:
> > Gorm.app preferred to Gorm.debug preferred to
> > Gorm.profile.
> > 
> > I can change this order if given convincing reasons
> > to do so :-) otherwise
> > I'd leave it as it is.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > Discuss-gnustep mailing list
> > Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> > http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
> 
> 
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