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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Again - UI feedback from a Linux newbie (was Radio button grouphighlighting)
From:       Rik Hemsley <rik () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-04-24 17:24:13
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#if Steven D'Aprano
> Just tossing out a wild idea here, but if someone was brave enough,
> they could create a system that mapped real files in a file system to
> (for want of a better term) packages in a hierarchical package system.
> Sort of like RPM on steroids :-)

RISC OS has done this since '92ish. The ROX desktop tries to
emulate it. KDE goes some way towards this with its .desktop files,
in that it hides filesystem information. RISC OS does more - it
allows a directory to be an application. To remove an application,
you just remove the 'file' (which is actually a directory). To
run the application, you just click the icon representing its
directory.

Implementing this is easy. The hard part is persuading distributors
that apps should not be installed such that their files are spread
around the system, with root priviledges required.

Rik

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