On 2016-04-19 09:46, Rustom Mody wrote: > inkscape > gimp > blender > libreoffice writer/calc/prese > wireshark > skype > firefox > audacity > musescore > totem > vlc > dia > > Do these look like text-based apps to you?
Well, let's take a look at their native file formats: Inkscape: SVG Libreoffice: compressed XML Firefox: HTML+CSS+JS Musescore: compressed text Dia: compressed XML While I haven't used Musescore, I have used the others and hand-edited the files in each case. Using vi/vim, or even ed(1). Because I can, and sometimes because I have to in order to do some convoluted process that would be a pain to do in a GUI. For Gimp, Blender, Audacity, Totem, and VLC, those all deal with binary streams of their content-type. Skype being proprietary, it doesn't interoperate with bupkis. So wireshark is the only outlier in my mind, though since it captures binary packets, I suspect the native format is optimized for streaming stuff from the NIC to the disk as fast as possible (though given CPU and disk speeds, I would have figured that a gzipped stream of text markup would be almost as good). -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
