<quote who="Jeff Waugh">
> The argument for not supporting "-display" in Gnome is that being a GNU
> project, it uses GNU long options.
I should clarify for anyone who doesn't know what that means... I forgot the
real results of that myself for a second there.
With GNU software, -display would be interpreted as -d -i -s -p -l -a -y,
which is not really what you'd mean. :) Incompatible standards, I'm afraid.
I just asked about the --display brokenness too, and James Henstridge [*]
explained that, GTK+ accepts "--display=<blah>", whilst the Gnome popt
parser hands things off to GTK+ as "--display <blah>".
I don't believe that the popt will be a lasting "feature" of Gnome, however,
so this will go away soon. I'm sure some minds may be swayed to include
"-display" (at least) as a special case, though.
- Jeff
[*] James is an Aussie Gnome hacker from WA. You may know him from Gnome
projects such as "gnorpm" (also Our Malcolm! :P), Dia and the very cool
libglade.
Just to keep Rodney from poking me in the eye, I'll link to James' interview
about the KDE League (of all things!) in LinuxWorld.com.au:
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/news.php3?nid=335&tid=2
(Rodney, you guys need to put dates on your articles, BTW. The categories
rock though - very useful.)
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