Mo McKinlay <mmckinlay@gnu.org> said:
> Horst von Brand said:
> # Just too bad this is a typical single-user-only mechanism: I don't want the
> # same icons (or messages, or whatever) to apply to make(1) as the next
> # guy. It is a UI problem, and UIs are user setup configuration stuff, not
> # file format stuff.
> Not really. This is the difference between system-wide configuration and
> user-wide configuration. The system-wide is the defaults, but the user can
> override it. (Bearing in mind some sort of central system would have to be
> used where forks weren't available, the same system could be used where
> the fork wasn't writeable...).
System-wide default icons for executable (or whatever) files?
> There's plenty of other uses for them besides icons, anyway :>
Such as? The _only_ use discussed all over tha place each time this comes
up (nad it does come up each two years or so) is icons.
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