Re: Installer UI advices

2005-03-17 Thread Robert Slover
On Mar 16, 2005, at 12:03 PM, Adrian Robert wrote: The key here is given appropriate support -- not just in practical usability (number of mouse clicks, disposal convenience, etc.), but in connecting with a *metaphor* the user understands. Disk images rely on the disk metaphor, which users know

Re: Installer UI advices

2005-03-17 Thread Jeremy Tregunna
On 17-Mar-05, at 3:02 AM, Robert Slover wrote: [...] -- so it is possible to compress a directory on, say, VMS, ftp it to some other VMS system, uncompress it and have a usable directory hierarchy Except GNUstep doesn't run on VMS. And if for example, you're also talking about resource forks,

/etc/GNUstep ????

2005-03-17 Thread Riccardo
Hey, who had that brilliant (?) idea of obsoleting stuff in /usr for a config file in /etc/GNUstep ? I think it is absolutely stupid to have _another_ GNUstep directory where to put files. So even if this super-smart person thought that X11 was an example to follow and that if xfree.conf

Re: /etc/GNUstep ????

2005-03-17 Thread Pete French
who had that brilliant (?) idea of obsoleting stuff in /usr for a config file in /etc/GNUstep ? (goes and has a look) umm, where did that come from ?! I have an install from CVS from a few days back and no /etc/GNUstep (nor a /usr/local/etc/GNUstep which is where I would expect it if it

Re: /etc/GNUstep ????

2005-03-17 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2005-03-17 11:04:52 + Pete French [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that whoever made this change should have at _least_ discussed it and bringing up good arguments for the choice. I remember this being discussed. I also seem to remember that

Re: Installer UI advices

2005-03-17 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
At 17:26 Uhr +0100 16.03.2005, Frederico Muñoz wrote: On 2005-03-16 15:50:10 + M. Uli Kusterer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:27 Uhr +0100 16.03.2005, Benoit wrote: It's far more easy to unmount the disk image than to erase a decompressed archive. Not really. On MacOS, you just drag both

Re: Installer UI advices

2005-03-17 Thread Jesse Ross
/ | +-+-+-+-+ | | | | | bin dev etc tmp usr | +--+--+ | | bin tmp /usr | +-+-+-+-+ | | | | | bin lib etc tmp opt | +--+--+ | | x y That's interesting... hearing the original meanings for

Re: Installer UI advices

2005-03-17 Thread Nicolas Roard
Le 17 mars 05, à 08:27, Jeremy Tregunna a écrit : On 17-Mar-05, at 3:02 AM, Robert Slover wrote: [...] -- so it is possible to compress a directory on, say, VMS, ftp it to some other VMS system, uncompress it and have a usable directory hierarchy Except GNUstep doesn't run on VMS. And if for

Re: /etc/GNUstep ????

2005-03-17 Thread Adam Fedor
On Mar 17, 2005, at 5:34 AM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote: I think that whoever made this change should have at _least_ discussed it and bringing up good arguments for the choice. I remember this being discussed. I also seem to remember that nobody could agree on the location as the 'correct'

[OT] Looking for a rare bird (job offer)

2005-03-17 Thread Tomasz Kukielka
Hello, Apologies for the noise with this post but the company that I work for is looking for a rare bird: C/C++/ObjC programmer with experience in Linux (GTK+) and Cocoa/ObjC on Mac OS X. I thought this list might be the perfect place to look for one. If anyone is interested, please e-mail me

Re: /etc/GNUstep ????

2005-03-17 Thread Adam Fedor
On Mar 17, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Alex Perez wrote: So is the way it currently works now documented anywhere? Does GNUstep actually honor the .GNUsteprc file in $GNUSTEP_ROOT? Yes. base/Documentation/Base.gsdoc (I think I need to clarify it more) .GNUsteprc is actually in $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT

Re: /etc/GNUstep ????

2005-03-17 Thread Sheldon Gill
Adam Fedor wrote: On Mar 17, 2005, at 2:42 PM, Alex Perez wrote: So is the way it currently works now documented anywhere? Does GNUstep actually honor the .GNUsteprc file in $GNUSTEP_ROOT? Currently yes but that particular file is deprecated. Note that, if you really want to, you could

Re: /etc/GNUstep ????

2005-03-17 Thread Sheldon Gill
Riccardo wrote: Hey, Hey yourself, who had that brilliant (?) idea of obsoleting stuff in /usr for a config file in /etc/GNUstep ? That was me! :) I think it is absolutely stupid to have _another_ GNUstep directory where to put files. So even if this super-smart person thought that X11 was an

Re: Frameworks under MS Windows and linking issues

2005-03-17 Thread Adam Fedor
On Mar 16, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Marc Brünink wrote: Hi List, finally we managed it to compile install a small but evil framework under MS Windows. So we got a myFramework.dll. But now the next problem arises: How to link a program against this framework? I tried something like -lmyFramework but