On Mar 2, 12:07 pm, [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 08:56:12AM -0800, Dos-Man 64 wrote: > > My book is here. This looks like a good, little quick reference book. > > I can finally delete directories that aren't empty :) > > > I still want to find a book that deals with the internals of X, so I > > can add programs to the start menu, add my own commands to the popup > > menu, change icons for applications, edit the registry (if there is > > one), etc. Most of the books deal only with shell commands, shell > > programming, using various X applications, installation, setting up > > networks, etc. > > Those things you're talking about are handled by the window manager (or > desktop environment), not X. i.e. fluxbox has you edit ~/.fluxbox/menu, > gnome and KDE both have graphical editors for their menus, and so on. > There is no registry (programs maintain their own configuration files > instead). This is good, because it removes that single point of failure, > and makes security administration much easier. Gnome has something that > looks an awful lot like a registry editor, called gconf-editor, but it > only contains preferences for the desktop environment, and only for the > local user (no system settings).- Hide quoted text - >
Surely there must be a book to explain these things? And I'm with you on the registry. Apparently Windows 7 has now uses two registries (as if one wasn't bad enough.) One is for 32-bit legacy apps and the other one is for 64-bit applications. On the surface the registry is a pretty good idea. But it quickly grows into a monster. And it was left up to software developers to manage or mismanage it as they see fit. It is most often mismanaged and it is really not practical for the end-user to do any kind of maintenance on it. In the end, it doesn't work (but don't tell MS that; let's wait to see how many decades it takes for them to figure it out.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
