Re: app wrappers and gworkspace

[Sascha Erni, .rb]

Hi Christopher,

On 2004-08-05 23:46:42 +0200 Christopher Culver 
<crculver@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> That's not the way to do it. GNUstep should not have to act
> differently than other desktop environments in this respect. We
> should use the files in /usr/share/applications, using on the
> FreeDesktop specifications, to get information. Why should we have to
> almost reinstall all the apps we want to use just to get them from
> GWorkspace?

The tool is supposed to be sort of a workaround until a better 
solution comes up (say, according to the freedesktop specs). i.e. as 
long as GWorkspace can't do it automatically, I'm quite glad to have a 
handy app that lets me wrap and register my binaries easily rather 
than having to create them from scratch.

I think everybody here will agree that, ultimately, there must be an 
easier / "automagical" way for the GNUstep workspace to access 
installed applications and their associated filetypes and actions. One 
of the things that really annoyes me about the app-wrapper idea is the 
filetype icons that need to be stored within every single application. 
I want to tell my workspace once what a xhtml file is supposed to look 
like, not multiple times just because I have more than one program 
installed that can / should deal with such files.

This is purely from an end-user's perspective, mind--I'm not a coder 
nor OPENSTEP advocate, hence I probably just said something that runs 
completely counter to the basic "philosophy". ;)

93,
-Sascha.rb

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