Probably mainly interesting to developers (and other Linux-savvy people) but I'd like better integration between the desktop applications and the XTerm. This doesn't have to be very fancy, MacOSX provides pretty good integration with just a few minimal measures: - The "open" command (from the command line) will open lots of files (and directories, and urls), selecting the application to use with the same database as used for double-clicking. - Dragging an icon from the finder to XTerm will paste the pathname there. - Desktop apps can be started from the command line, and will accept a filename to open when run in that way (implemented in the GUI framework by simulating an open command, not something every app needs to care about). - Even though the Finder doesn't normally show the geeky unix directories you can open them with the shell "open" command or by typing their pathname into a special dialog. This allows you to use standard UI tools (such as the minimal text editor) on things they can't normally reach. -- Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2255 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20060818/ebb0506a/attachment.bin
