From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262580AbVF2N4A (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:56:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262581AbVF2Nz7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:55:59 -0400 Received: from sp-260-1.net4.netcentrix.net ([4.21.254.118]:5902 "EHLO asmodeus.mcnaught.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262580AbVF2NvI (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:51:08 -0400 To: Horst von Brand Cc: Hubert Chan , Kyle Moffett , David Masover , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Lincoln Dale , Gregory Maxwell , Hans Reiser , Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ReiserFS List Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins References: <200506290509.j5T595I6010576@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> From: Douglas McNaught Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:50:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200506290509.j5T595I6010576@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> (Horst von Brand's message of "Wed, 29 Jun 2005 01:09:05 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Horst von Brand writes: > Hubert Chan wrote: > >> Of course, this >> change does require file managers to understand default actions when >> it's ambiguous what to do on a double-click -- but MacOS X has that too, >> in the form of the "Open as Folder" option (or whatever it's called). > > Right. For the sake of a filesystem among many on a minority operating > system /all/ GUI programs have to be rewritten. And all command-line > stuff. Just because. I'll just note that the "applications bundled as directories" stuff on MacOS/NextStep is done completely in userspace--as far as the kernel is concerned, "Mail.app" is a regular directory. The file manager handles recognition and invocation of application bundles (and there is an 'open' shell command that does the same thing). -Doug