Hi Ross, Thanks so much for replying....will try reading the desktop files :)
Bye for now On Sunday 24 January 2010, Ross Burton wrote: > On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 17:29 +0500, Jeetu Golani wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'd like to get information related to the installed applications under > > Moblin and be able to launch these applications. I've come across the > > genesis project that is supposedly for this purpose however the link at > > http://moblin.org/community/blogs/raymond/2008/genesis-now-support- dbus-i > >nterfaceto get the code isn't working. > > > > I would appreciate if someone could point me to the code base of Genesis > > or something similar, any tutorials and code samples would be profusely > > appreciated. > > Genesis was a prototype and isn't used, you can find out the installed > applications by reading the desktop files in /usr/share/applications/. > See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec > and other associated specifications on freedesktop.org for the specs, > and you'll probably want to use GKeyFile to parse them. > > Ross > _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
