<command> vs <application>

Karsten Wade kwade at redhat.com
Thu Sep 8 17:44:42 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 10:51 -0400, Brad Smith wrote:
> <para>
> 	<command>links</command> is an unusual web 
> 	browser in that, unlike graphical browsers such as 
> 	<application>Firefox</application>, it is run 
> 	from the command-line with an instruction like 
> 	<command>links http://fedora.redhat.com</command>.
> </para>
> 
> I can understand why we might want to differentiate between commands the
> user might run and commands that are just being mentioned (my initial
> assumption), but the official definition, which requires a different tag
> for links and Firefox when mentioned in the same context, seems
> arbitrary and kind of silly.

The difference is, <application>Firefox</application> is the GUI app,
while the command <command>firefox</command> uses the script at
<filename>/usr/bin/firefox</filename> to run the <command>firefox-
bin</command> binary.

Does that make sense?  I'm pretty sure that is what the DocBook
committee meant.

:-D - Karsten

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