Photo ID patch
Jonathan Hayward
jshayward@pobox.com
Sun Jul 29 00:24:02 2001
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Frank Tobin wrote:
> tftp, at 14:12 -0700 on Sat, 28 Jul 2001, wrote:
>
> Most (all?) of Linux distributions don't come with xv. This is a
> troublesome default. It would be not unreasonable to default to
> ee, since GNOME is installed often, on BSD too.
>
> The problem with "ee" is that on FreeBSD "ee" is the name of the default
> editor, "easy editor". In the ports collection for FreeBSD, Electries
> Eyes' binary is renamed to "ElectricEyes" to avoid namespace clashing.
>
Default to a script, packaged with the binary, that invokes an
OS/distribution appropriate viewer. Could just call whatever ee is named;
could perhaps make another choice.
>
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Frank Tobin wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>tftp, at 14:12 -0700 on Sat, 28 Jul 2001, wrote:
<p> Most (all?) of Linux distributions don't come with
xv. This is a
<br> troublesome default. It would be not unreasonable
to default to
<br> ee, since GNOME is installed often, on BSD too.
<p>The problem with "ee" is that on FreeBSD "ee" is the name of the default
<br>editor, "easy editor". In the ports collection for FreeBSD, Electries
<br>Eyes' binary is renamed to "ElectricEyes" to avoid namespace clashing.
<br> </blockquote>
Default to a script, packaged with the binary, that invokes an OS/distribution
appropriate viewer. Could just call whatever ee is named; could perhaps
make another choice.
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>
<br>--
<br>Frank Tobin
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Jonathan Hayward
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<A HREF="http://JonathansCorner.com">http://JonathansCorner.com</A>
(A four dimensional maze, stories, artwork, and other things...)</pre>
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