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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Hanover.Germany.EU.net!Hamburg.Germany.EU.net!nuki.NetUSE.de!white.schulung.netuse.de!kris From: kris@schulung.netuse.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristian_K=F6hntopp?=) Subject: Re: Ideal filesystem Sender: kris@white.schulung.netuse.de (Kristian Koehntopp) Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?entf=E4llt?= Message-ID: <DpJDE0.Iqq@white.schulung.netuse.de> References: <4hptj4$cf4@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <3140C968.20699696@netcom.com> <4ilgto$861@floyd.sw.oz.au> <4j6if4$15gk@news.missouri.edu> <315834CD.7C4DA6C7@netcom.com> <4jc6q5$bgd@josie.abo.fi> <315B0727.70172281@netcom.com> <4jnvb4$608@floyd.sw.oz.au> <31608939.342B2F46@netcom.com> <DpAGp3.3tD@pe1chl.ampr.org> <31631142.59EBBBEF@netcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 8 Apr 1996 09:08:23 GMT X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 1996 Kristian Koehntopp -- All rights reserved. Lines: 19 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:21007 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:17009 Adam Megacz <kalessin@netcom.com> writes: >But where will you store the icon for the directory "/home/user/"???? It would be stored in >/home/user/.icon, according to you. But what if that file already exists, and has text data (as >opposed to a pixmap). This is how Nextstep does it. You can have the files .dir.tiff and .opendir.tiff in any directory Nextstep shows a default icon (an image of a folder) when the files are not present or the contents of the tiff images (scaled down to fit) if they are in place and readable. The user must not use dotfiles of this specific name for other purposes. In practice, this is not a problem. Kristian -- Kristian Koehntopp, Wassilystrasse 30, 24113 Kiel, +49 431 688897 Fachbegriffe der Informatik einfach erklaert, Teil 14: "Client-Server" == "wir wollen mehr als einen Rechner verkaufen"