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SELinux Mailing ListRe: Desktop apps interoperability
From: Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2_at_cornell.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:44:22 -0500
I don't understand what this has to do with the application developer. This is a discussion of desktop applications that manipulate content relevant to the user - not internal settings. The settings that go under /home are another issue - that would require changing the app, but they don't have to be changed all at the same time. All those apps *ask* you where to store the content. You create a document of some sort, and you have a choice of where to put it. This has nothing to do with the app developer. It's just another restriction imposed on the user. Hopefully there's a way to get away with it, while staying user-friendly. That's why I'm suggesting content folders be introduced and integrated w/ GNOME's Places menu, for example. That seems like a small first step to improving things... no? Ok, some apps like gift don't ask where to save the content, but that's the exception and not the rule. -- Ivan Gyurdiev <ivg2@cornell.edu> Cornell University -- This message was distributed to subscribers of the selinux mailing list. If you no longer wish to subscribe, send mail to majordomo@tycho.nsa.gov with the words "unsubscribe selinux" without quotes as the message.Received on Wed 30 Mar 2005 - 12:40:36 EST |
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Date Posted: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Modified: Jan 15, 2009 | Last Reviewed: Jan 15, 2009 |