Paul Dann wrote: > MLA-Gobo wrote: >> On Friday 27 July 2007 13:44, Paul Dann wrote: >> >>> My thoughts >>> particularly lie with programs being re-locatable (ie not necessarily in >>> the /Programs dir). >>> >> Out of curiosity, what do you see as the advantage for this? >> > Well, what if an unprivileged user wants to compile a program and run > it? He'll need a mechanism to get that program in the path without it > going in /Programs.
You should check out the ROX desktop environment. It uses the idea of AppDirs. And there's a lot of apps out there that can be converted easily into appdirs, even though there's also a lot apps that can't because they get hardcoded paths in them when compiled.. -- /Jonatan [ http://kymatica.com ] _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
