Re: [MiNT] Where should a user put GEM apps

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Thomas Jürges
<thomas@sokrates.homelinux.net> wrote:
> ...
>>>> - You don't know in advance if you start a GEM- or a console-app
>>>>
>>> And? How many times you wanted to start Amarok in terminal in Linux?
>>
>> Start what? Imagine a user does not know what a file is for, and starts
>> it to see the usage-message, and suddenly a whole bunch of windows pop up, and the used gets confused.
>
> What user are you thinking of?  rpm -qf Full_Path/File tells you what
> you need to know.  I believe it is a sane assumption to expect a user of
> a 20+ year old computer OS/system to be a little computer-savvy.  Either
> the user is using MiNT in an emulator or on a real system.  Both require
> some set-up work.
>
>
> Cheers,
>        T.
One of the reasons I like windows is because you can start a graphical
app from the console, in its case just by typeing the file name to be
"viewed"

This makes it useful for scripting purposes..

Paul