On Friday 10 May 2002 13:39, Padraig Brady wrote:
> Nick Murtagh wrote:
> > It would be nice to combine this with the NeXT idea of
> > hiding application files from ordinary users...
>> Hmm, users should be restricted to ~ or at least /home ?
> I remember Corel's filemanager (which was quite good really),
> restricted to ~ unless you were root.
No, I mean the thing where an "application" is basically a
directory containing binaries, libraries, configuration,
which then appears in the GUI as a single icon. I think
this is done in Mac too? And GNUStep...
It would be nice to have this at the command line level too.
Basically executing the "directory" would run the application.
But you could also cd into the directory and mess with stuff
(given the right permissions).
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