Re: [MiNT] MiNT - Made By Internet Distribution

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 11:55:58PM -0400, Katherine Ellis wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 1999, [ISO-8859-1] Jörg Westheide wrote:
> 
> > Hi Katherine!
> > 
> > KE>why GEM all upper?
> > Because it's an abbreviation?
> > Looks better?
> All relative :)
> 2) I hate when I use completion for example from a shell, and always think
> about casing. 

GEM would be used for programs that you seldom launch from a
conventional command line shell.

> Personal rule, "keep it simple".

Also relative: For me it is simple that the GUI stuff can be easily
distinguished in directory listings because uppercase are "lower" than
lowercase letters.  In a decent file manager you would always see these
directories in the upper left corner.

BTW, is there a way to configure that in Thing?

> for X, they used for example files like: XF86Config 

Right, in X it is a mess because it's not consequent.  Doesn't say a lot
about the original idea however.

Anyway, I personally don't care too much about executables.  But I would
like to see all GUI related header files in subdirectories instead of in
the normale INCLUDE path.  This gives more freedom to the programmers of
GEM toolkits, it keeps the include directory smaller (and thus makes the
preprocessor faster) and it is simpler.

Ciao

Guido
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