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Re: KDE -- you are the best!
by Paul Koshevoy on Saturday 14/Oct/2006, @16:50

Cool, although I think you are mistaken about OSX mounting the .app bundles. It can mount .dmg images that may contain bundles inside of them, but the .app directories are not mounted. All it does is look inside the .app directory in predefined places for the info file, the executable, the frameworks and resources.

BTW, if KDE4 will be ported to OSX natively then support for .app bundles will be necessary anyway in order to be able to launch native OSX applications from konqueror.

Paul.

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Re: KDE -- you are the best!
by superstoned on Sunday 15/Oct/2006, @03:49

OSX does mount .app bundles, you just don't notice it. it's the way they work. you do know osx generally doesn't 'install' apps like linux tools like rpm normally do, isn't it? well, the only other doable way is mounting it like klik does...

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Re: KDE -- you are the best!
by AC on Sunday 15/Oct/2006, @05:13

>>OSX does mount .app bundles, you just don't notice it.

Thats a huge difference between linux and macos: linux shows everything it does, while macos hides it all.

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Re: KDE -- you are the best!
by Paul Koshevoy on Sunday 15/Oct/2006, @10:05

No it doesn't mount them.

Look, I am running a Terminal.app on my iMac right now, building Qt 4.2.0:
apple:~ paul$ ps auxwww | grep Termin
paul 230 0.3 2.3 128912 12260 ?? S 9:23AM 1:48.03 /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal -psn_0_3407873

And here is the output of the mount command:
apple:~ paul$ mount
/dev/disk0s5 on / (local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (local)
fdesc on /dev (union)
<volfs> on /.vol
automount -nsl [118] on /Network (automounted)
automount -fstab [129] on /automount/Servers (automounted)
automount -static [129] on /automount/static (automounted)
homestead:/home on /private/var/automount/home (automounted)
homestead:/VCR on /private/var/automount/nfs/VCR (automounted)
homestead:/usr/local/unsafe on /private/var/automount/nfs/unsafe (automounted)

As you can see the Terminal.app is not mounted

Paul

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Re: KDE -- you are the best!
by AC on Sunday 15/Oct/2006, @17:41

Are your sure?

Read this:
http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Technical/2001-03-29.01.html

"2. Next, you want to mount the image. However you do not want the system to be notified of the mount, so you must used the -nomount command."

As said earlier, MacOS hides the mounting of the image.

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Re: KDE -- you are the best!
by Paul Koshevoy on Sunday 15/Oct/2006, @19:56

You are confusing a .dmg file with a .app bundle. A .dmg file is a disk image (like a .iso), it can contain anything, not necesssarily a .app bundle. You can mount a .dmg image, but the applications that ship with OSX are not installed as .dmg images, but as straight .app bundles.

Paul.

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Re: KDE -- you are the best!
by Corbin on Monday 16/Oct/2006, @07:13

A single image file (the klik image) is generally far easier to move around than a directory with bunches of files in it. With klik you would only have to move a single file around, but with a .app folder there isn't a practical way to distribute it over http or other file transfer protocols without putting it into an image file (say a .dmg). Since the mounting/unmounting of klik images is done automagically by the klik association it really is totally transparent to the user, though hopefully in the future FUSE will remove the need to even edit the fstab file.

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Re: KDE -- you are the best!
by Paul Koshevoy on Sunday 15/Oct/2006, @20:01

Also, OSX does show mounted .dmg files which you can see for yourself using the mount command any time you have double clicked on a .dmg file.

Paul.

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klik, .dmg and .app
by AC on Monday 16/Oct/2006, @09:35

Paul,

the difference between .app and .dmg is minimal. Basically, .app ("application directory") is an extracted .dmg (or .dmg is a compressed archive of an .app directory structure).

As such, .app and its subdir structure does not need mounting (in this point you are absolutely right), it just needs to be there. A .dmg needs mounting precisely, because mounting lets it look like it is part of the complete file directory system (instead of a single file, which it is if un-mounted.)

A klik bundle can easily be extracted, and then it simply becomes an .app-lik sub-directory structure, from where you can run the application without mounting.

More info about klik here: http://klik.atekon.de/wiki/index.php/User's_FAQ

A question to the KDE community: what happened to previous promises to integrate a klik-friendly client structure into KDE4's core? Ya know, things like support for automatic integration of klik app images into the K menu (and their removal if a .cmg is deleted), display of app-specific icons that are glue-ed to the klik .cmg file, and more goodies?

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Re: klik, .dmg and .app
by anon y mouse on Monday 16/Oct/2006, @15:03

In the time honoured fashion of FOSS - what's stopping ya? You want it done - go to it!

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