On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 18:26 +0100, Nick Glynn wrote: > Hey Alex, > > Is there anything preventing something like the Application Directory > idea that was used in RiscOS and I think still used in ROX? > > The situation would be where you have a gnome Applications directory > that is treated in such a way that a subdirectory '!MyApp' is > presented as MyApp - such that the pling is hidden - with an icon ! > MyApp/MyApp.svg shown instead of the standard folder picture and > double clicking it launches !MyApp/!Run. Under the !MyApp directory > could be all the relevant libraries that aren't part of GnomeCore and > resources.
App directories are not very much different than an image-based bundle. You can easily mount the image separately and look into it. The main difference is that other apps needs no modification to work with single-file bundles, whereas nothing will currently understand app directories. Additionally, with a custom image format you can do some special handling, like glick2 does to merge identical files in different bundles at runtime. All other advantages/problems with bundling is the same with appdirs and image-based bundles. _______________________________________________ gnome-os-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-os-list
