On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:17 +0200, Tom Bachmann wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pierre THIERRY wrote: > > But there would still be a category of programs where > > just a powerbox would not be enough: programs that browse directories > > themselves, like image viewers. > > When do image viewers browse directories themselves?
Tom: Consider gthumb. Gthumb is actually two things: a browsing "shell" and a bunch of plugin image viewers. If you look at it that way then *your* comment makes sense (and I agree with it). But to users it does not appear that way, and it is surprisingly easy for developers to forget this too. Pierre: Consider that the failure to cleanly separate the shell from the viewers in gthumb is actually a fundamental design error. Sometimes the right solution is to fix the bad program. We can't do them all at once, but we need to start somewhere. shap _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
