Re: [E-devel] Is there a library within E to parse .desktop type files?

2005-12-16 Thread Jose O Gonzalez
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:25:36 +0900 Carsten writes: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:14:41 +0800 Phuah Yee Keat [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Hi, I have checked the way KDM does autodetection of the sessions that are available on the system, it uses its own set of .desktop files (which

RE: [E-devel] Is there a library within E to parse .desktop type files?

2005-12-16 Thread Essien Ita Essien
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jose O Gonzalez Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 12:21 PM To: enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [E-devel] Is there a library within E to parse .desktop type files? On Thu

Re: [E-devel] Is there a library within E to parse .desktop type files?

2005-12-16 Thread Morten Nilsen
Essien Ita Essien wrote: As for edc's being in XML format... I have one response *ugh*. XML is unnecessarily verbose for the kind of thing edje is trying to accomplish *IMOHO*, though, if someone wanted to write an edcML parser that allows one to work in XML and spit out edcs, it will

Re: [E-devel] Is there a library within E to parse .desktop type files?

2005-12-16 Thread David Stevenson
On 12/16/05, Morten Nilsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essien Ita Essien wrote: As for edc's being in XML format... I have one response *ugh*. XML is unnecessarily verbose for the kind of thing edje is trying to accomplish *IMOHO*, though, if someone wanted to write an edcML parser that allows

Re: [E-devel] Is there a library within E to parse .desktop type files?

2005-12-16 Thread Russell Shaw
David Stevenson wrote: On 12/16/05, *Morten Nilsen* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essien Ita Essien wrote: As for edc's being in XML format... I have one response *ugh*. XML is unnecessarily verbose for the kind of thing edje is trying to

Re: [E-devel] Is there a library within E to parse .desktop type files?

2005-12-16 Thread Morten Nilsen
David Stevenson wrote: In fact, why stop there - someone really ought to tell those XML guys to replace their crap syntax with the much happier EDC braces style (^_^) Just what I think with some beer in me :-) wouldn't that be C and not EDC? ;) point of close-tags in xml is to be absolutely

[E-devel] Is there a library within E to parse .desktop type files?

2005-12-14 Thread Phuah Yee Keat
Hi, I have checked the way KDM does autodetection of the sessions that are available on the system, it uses its own set of .desktop files (which we can just copy), and check to see if the executables are in the system. I have did a quick check on the e_libs, but sees no library to parse

Re: [E-devel] Is there a library within E to parse .desktop type files?

2005-12-14 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:14:41 +0800 Phuah Yee Keat [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Hi, I have checked the way KDM does autodetection of the sessions that are available on the system, it uses its own set of .desktop files (which we can just copy), and check to see if the executables are in the

Re: [E-devel] Is there a library within E to parse .desktop type files?

2005-12-14 Thread Phuah Yee Keat
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:14:41 +0800 Phuah Yee Keat [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I have checked the way KDM does autodetection of the sessions that are available on the system, it uses its own set of .desktop files (which we can just copy), and check to see

Re: [E-devel] Is there a library within E to parse .desktop type files?

2005-12-14 Thread The Rasterman
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:32:44 +0800 Phuah Yee Keat [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:14:41 +0800 Phuah Yee Keat [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I have checked the way KDM does autodetection of the sessions that are available on the system,