Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> The argument that commands which only get started by the GUI should not
> be accessible via /usr/bin (or some other "easily accessible" path, such
> as /usr/gnome/bin or somesuch, ala /usr/dt/bin) is probably being made
> mostly by folks who don't really use a CLI for most of their work.
> There are a lot of us CLI folks out there, and even though we use GUI
> applications, we often use a CLI to start them.
Who's up for creating some sort of .hidden functionality for applications that
you don't want to appear in tab file completion? :)
> (Now, "helper" applications, such as a program that is really only a
> helper for another GUI application, are a different matter entirely.
> /usr/bin/totem-video-indexer is a good example. I suspect that it
> serves no useful purpose living in /usr/bin.)
Those are bugs really. The desktop team have sent many patches upstream to fix
a
lot of those, and make sure they get installed into ${libexecdir} instead.
Unfortunately they usually get low priority from the maintainers.
Glynn
