John Plocher wrote:
> I have the 202 ".files" in my $home, including the following
> 50-some desktop/JDS related ones. Making yet another one
> with an overly generic name seems wrong - why not use something
> like .desktop, and find a way for *EVERY* packaged desktop app
> in OpenSolaris to use it?
Because those came from something like 30 different projects who
were all working on their own thing, and not as part of a unified
vision, and changing the Solaris versions to use .desktop would
break interoperability with other platforms. (You've also included
bits of cruft from CDE, Enlightment, OpenWindows, KDE, and versions
of GNOME that Sun never incorporated into Solaris, plus Netscape
binaries Sun had no control over, as well as non desktop stuff and
stuff from Sun's internal IT scripts in your list.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
