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SubjectRe: Re(2): NTFS-like streams?
mmckinlay@gnu.org (Mo McKinlay)  wrote on 13.08.00 in <Pine.LNX.4.21.0008131150580.6145-100000@sphere.man.uk.ekto.org>:

> To respond to the earlier "desktops want to be OSes" thing.. no, desktops
> don't want be OSes, but the OS has to provide in some form or another the
> the facilities to be able to do the things that users want to be able to
> do with the desktop. Unless the OS and the desktop were designed together
> (MacOS being the best example), the desktop invariably has perform
> not-so-elegant kludges to make things work on the desktop - things which
> don't work in nearly the same way on the command-line, because the OS
> didn't support that kind of thing from the ground up.

Very true. And forks/attributes are just one case of many.

For example, directory change callbacks for file browsers (as opposed to
re-statting the stuff on a timer).

Similar stuff for a process browser.

Trashcan support for file deletions. (If it's not in the OS, command line
file deletion behaves very different from GUI file deletion.)

Or for s/OS/protocol/, parsing support for a GUI FTP program.

I'm sure there is lots more on the list.

MfG Kai

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