On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote: > The prefix "x-" in "x-window-manager" and "x-terminal-emulator" doesn't > mean, "oh nifty, it brings up pretty pictures in a GUI", it means "it > speaks the X protocol". Stop and consider for a moment why we don't have > "window-manager" and "terminal-emulator" alternatives. I was pretty sure that's exactly what they meant. > Most of the things you enumerate above are far better handled by MIME > implementations. The exceptions I can see are "x-editor", which shouldn't > be needed anyway because editors should fall back to text mode if they > can't talk to $DISPLAY, and "mixer" which doesn't actually handle data, but > is really just a wrapper around a bunch of ioctl()s. I don't know about you, but I use a different editor in X than I do in the console. -- .----------=======-=-=====-=========----------=====-----------=-=-----=. / David Barclay Harris Aut agere, aut mori. \ \ Clan Barclay Either action, or death. / `---========------======-------------=-=-----=-===-=====-------=--=----'
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