Horst von Brand <[email protected]> writes:
> Hubert Chan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Of course, this
>> change does require file managers to understand default actions when
>> it's ambiguous what to do on a double-click -- but MacOS X has that too,
>> in the form of the "Open as Folder" option (or whatever it's called).
>
> Right. For the sake of a filesystem among many on a minority operating
> system /all/ GUI programs have to be rewritten. And all command-line
> stuff. Just because.
I'll just note that the "applications bundled as directories" stuff on
MacOS/NextStep is done completely in userspace--as far as the kernel
is concerned, "Mail.app" is a regular directory. The file manager
handles recognition and invocation of application bundles (and there
is an 'open' shell command that does the same thing).
-Doug
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