From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:18:10 GMT
Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710161617490.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <E1Ihnvq-0002Xr-F9@fencepost.gnu.org>

Hi,

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 14:24:34 +0100 (BST)
> > From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> > cc: barkalow@iabervon.org, raa.lkml@gmail.com, ae@op5.se, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, 
> >     git@vger.kernel.org
> > 
> > Funny.  Last time I checked the toolbar went away, as well as the desktop, 
> > when I killed explorer.exe.
> 
> That's a ``feature'': Explorer is the parent of all the desktop
> display.  Kinda like the login shell on Unix: if you kill it, there
> goes your whole session.  Except that on Windows, the OS pays
> attention and restarts Explorer right away to get you back in
> business.  (In first versions of Windows, there was no restarting of
> Explorer, so if you killed it, you needed to reboot :-()

I kinda knew that.  But what's now with your recommendation to never run 
Explorer?

Ciao,
Dscho