Re: Linux Standardized Desktop Tools

For UNIX and Linux the phrase "a file is a file" still holds true;
therefore, commands and pipes are a core feature of the admin and user
environment.  GUI applications should build on common APIs and
commands.  You are correct that many commands can be wrappered by GUIs;
however, that seem to be a higher level than where the LSB is
concentrating.

Perhaps the GNOME Usability Project would be a good place for the kinds
of suggestions you have made.

http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/

George (gk4)

On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 15:25, Per Arneng wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> When you sit down at a linux machine you allways know that you will have 
> access to commands like 'ls' , 'rm' , 'ps' .. 'kill' . These set of utilities 
> are the thing that make the linux distributions connected to eachother. Linux 
> would not work if these tools had different names or did not exist on any 
> distribution.
> 
> Well now we live in the 21th century and the command line is not the standard 
> way of accessing a computer even though it is effective. Today we use desktop 
> environments to access our computers such as KDE and GNOME. The problem is 
> the when you switch from one desktop to another you have to learn a new set 
> of graphical tools and that is especially hard for older people.
> 
> PROBLEM:
> 
> * Lack of a set of basic graphical tools (ex: File management , Process 
> control , Control panel) that are consistent on all distributions.
> 
> SOLUTION:
> 
> * A set of GUI design guidelines and reference software these utilities.
> 
> These utilities can be  implemented in GNOME, KDE or any other GUI toolkit as 
> long as they have the same look & feel. They should not have to look the same 
> in color or theme but the buttons should be in the same place and perform the 
> same functionality. 
> 
> Even if these tools existed there should be no limit to add other similar tool 
> that look different and work different as long as you at least could expect 
> these standardized tools to be present.
> 
> Sorry for the poor English
> 
> Best regards 
>    Per Arneng <[email protected]>
>   
> 
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