"Michael P. Soulier" <[email protected]> writes: Hi Michael:
> You'd think a default app wrapper that does something intelligent > would be a basic requirement of this framework. I guess you can make an appwrapper for xdg-open and set it as the default editor in GWorkspace. > Not yet, I'm trying to understand how a new user would ever get this > far without simply giving up and moving to Gnome or KDE. I'm not > trying to offend, but the environment is hardly friendly to the new > user, even one like myself who's used *nix for decades. The problem is not with GNUstep based apps (since they are app bundles), but with X app integration. There was talk a long time ago about supporting .desktop files: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2004-05/msg00014.html Maybe the idea should be revived. > It's not exactly out-of-the-box friendly, and that's likely due to > the Debian packaging. Unfortunately I couldn't get the source packages > to build. Agreed. However, this is up to the distros to setup a user friendly GNUstep environment. > And I seem to be stuck with them... What problems do you have building GNUstep? > but it looks like I'm a victim of poor Debian package maintenance. Yes. > Maybe until I want to mount a USB stick without a shell command... Here is a dockapp: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmudmount/ Charles -- Why use Windows, since there is a door? (By [email protected], Andre Fachat)
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