David Weinehall wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 04:58:20PM +0300, Markus Törnqvist wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:50:27AM -0400, Douglas McNaught wrote:
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).
Note that MacOS has the monopoly on what they ship, Linux has a
motherload of file managers and window systems and all.
What pisses me off is the fact that Gnome and friends implement
their own incompatible-with-others VFS's and automounters and
stuff.
Surely supporting this in the kernel and extending the LSB
to require this is the best step to take without infringing
anyone's freedom as such.
*still pissed off about having to hassle an automatic mount*
GNOME and KDE run on operating systems that run other kernels than
Linux, hence they have to implement their own userland VFS anyway.
Adding this to the Linux kernel won't help them one bit, unless
we can magically convince Sun to add it to Solaris, all different
BSD:s to add it to their kernels, etc. Not going to happen.
An effort to get GNOME and KDE to unify their VFS:s would be
far more benificial,
Than what? Creating a unified VFS which I can access from Bash, and
which obsoletes both GNOME and KDE's VFSes except in their presentation?
FreeDesktop is doing a lot of work to make GNOME, KDE, and other
DE:s interoperate as much as possible. Support their initiative
instead of trying to get a monstrosity (albeit a very cool one,
conceptually) into the kernel. Sure, it could be made to work,
but not without dropping our Unixness.
(I'm talking about the metafs (/meta) idea, which isn't nearly as much a
monstrocity, and doesn't kill our unixness, it enhances it.)
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