An icon for each app, was Re: Where art thou, xinit?
An icon for each app, was Re: Where art thou, xinit?
- Subject: An icon for each app, was Re: Where art thou, xinit?
- From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:25:29 -0800
On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Jamie Kennea wrote:
On Nov 16, 2007, at 3:39 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
Personally I would hate that as I currently have 28 x-clients running
(mostly ssh/xterms to other systems) which would make the doc
extremely
crowded. This number is actually about 2/3 what I normally have as I
rebooted the machine yesterday after an update.
Seconded. I think I'll probably wake up screaming tonight after
having nightmares about my Dock filled with 30 X11 related icons
that serve no purpose. If people want this sort of functionality so
badly can I politely suggest something like Xdroplets?
Oh, I swear, there are 5 unique conversations about X11 on the Mac
that happen, total, and this is one of them - but at least now we can
have it publicly and recorded for posterity :)
I love the -- hypothetical -- idea of having each X11 application
having its own icon. Putting aside the technical issues of getting
the Dock to do that, there's the above-mentioned problem -- 20 xterms
should not each get their own icon. It'd be great to have them all
under one icon. Well, X11 already does that, but they're all in the
same X11 icon. So maybe each individually named app (xterm vs gimp,
etc) is coalesced into on icon (or even a Stack, but implementing that
is even *more* far-fetched!).
So, maybe instead we just make it easier to make droplets. Too bad
we broke all of the existing droplets with this launchd nonsense for
Leopard. :/ And I don't actually know how droplets work -- I assume
they bring your app (say, Gimp) to the foreground when you click on
them? As if we didn't have enough trouble doing that in X11?
It's enough to get completely overwhelmed, I tell you. :) I'd still
love to see this all happen and done right, but we have to start
somewhere. The launchd support for X11 in Leopard was where we chose
to start.
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Ben Byer
CoreOS / BSD Technology Group, XDarwin maintainer
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