Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:43:01 +0100 (GMT) | From | Mo McKinlay <> | Subject | Re: NTFS-like streams? |
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# When people advance *Windows* as a *consistent* UI, something is *badly* # wrong.
No, not really. Between applications, Windows is very consitent. Between versions, there's horrible inconsisitencies (which I said, I believe).
# Yes, it's more consistant than X, but that's about the limit.
X isn't a desktop environment. GNOME is, KDE is, CDE is, X isn't.
# (Incidentally, they also have the "treat structured files as directories" # thing. In purely user-level code. For a strictly selected set of # structured files and contents thereof.)
Quite simply: That's nice for the MacOS, but the only comparison that can be made is the type of feature we're discussing; the situation is very different.
The GNUstep people have got Bundles pretty well tied up on Linux anyway.. being as MacOS X handles them like NeXTstep did - i.e., the GUI behaviour is different from the command-line behaviour (the former treats the bundle as a file, unless you tell it otherwise, the latter treats it as the directory it actually is).
I know this works well on NeXTstep, but the average NeXTstep user is a tad more clued up about things than your average Windows user, or even your average Linux newbie.
-- Mo McKinlay Chief Software Architect inter/open Labs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Key: pub 1024D/76A275F9 2000-07-22 Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay@gnu.org>
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