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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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