Re: [SLE] Link to application will not work(solved)

16 Sep 2005

      On 9/16/05, Greg Wallace  wrote:
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On Friday, September 16, 2005 @ 4:51 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
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* Greg Wallace  [09-16-05 01:54]:
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I think what I was trying was illogical.  I thought maybe you could
just click a desktop shortcut and it would launch a shell and run the
command.
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Don't know what makes you think it illogical.  It is perfectly logical
and _will_ work as you describe.  Time to go back to the books.
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Nah.  You shouldn't have to go to books for something like this if it's
doable.  You can do this in Windows.  Why make it that hard for a Newbie to
do it in Linux.  It should be right there if you right click the icon.  As
for me, I'll remember that it is doable but don't have the time right now to
"hit the books".
Greg Wallace
I really hate that. Don't tell me that first time you saw Win'95, you
knew how to create a shortcut of DOS program on the desktop, how to
set the right memory settings, etc. Without any help or reading. Also
- the other OS _was_ designed as a replacement of DOS, but with need
for compatibility, so it can make a difference between a DOS and Win
program. In *nix - you have executable - always a *nix executable
(script or binary, doesn't matter).

There's always time for books, and when you come to something new, do
not forget that the old one was new in the past as well.

Patrick is right, it is not _illogical_. Some reasons are:

1. The *nix way is that every command, which does its job OK, will not
produce any output. Especially scripts, as they are meant to automate
jobs, without user intervention.
2. The job of the graphic environment is _not_ to "think" for you and
to guess what you may want. If you click on a command, it will execute
it. Noone told it that this particular command needs a terminal
output. By default it wont (see 1).
3. If you still need the terminal window - create one, or tell the
environment to create one - with selecting the checkbox "Run in
terminal window" of the shortcut.

And again ... this ARE different OSes, with their own way of
performing tasks. Do not expect that they will react the same way,
they wont. Just put yourself in the place of an old *nix guy, who have
used X, and possibly KDE :), and never Windows. Oh, never mind, I'm
sure his reaction will be - what's that shell screen, how stupid :)

Cheers

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Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)