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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Example: You have any old arbitrary email client. A mail contains a URL. Click |
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> it. The URL should open in your preferred browser, whatever that should be. |
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> Please note that any email client should support launching any browser, |
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> whether the dev built in support for it or not. |
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Simply put a simple script in a defined, stardized location. |
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Or use plan9's plumber. |
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> Example: Notifications. I have 3 (yes, three!!) kinds of popups that show up |
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> here daily. There's KDE's system which is the majority of them, some GTK apps |
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> throw popups in the top right corner where I don't want them and them then |
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> there's Skype which does it's own thing. God, you gotta love proprietary |
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> sekrit apps </sarcasm>. The solution is a notification service, apps send |
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> their notifications to it and the service does whatever the user configured it |
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> to do with the notification. |
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man 1 plumb |
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> Just to bring this back to your original statement of Unix philosophy. IPC on |
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> modern desktops conforms exactly to the Unix philosophy. |
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On dbus, everything's a file ? |
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Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ |
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cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: info@×××××.de skype: nekrad666 |
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