Enlightenment CVS committal
Author : onefang
Project : e17
Module : apps/e
Dir : e17/apps/e/doc
Modified Files:
FDO.txt
Log Message:
It's more complete now.
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RCS file: /cvs/e/e17/apps/e/doc/FDO.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -3 -r1.1 -r1.2
--- FDO.txt 6 Sep 2006 15:10:34 -0000 1.1
+++ FDO.txt 7 Sep 2006 06:12:45 -0000 1.2
@@ -1,11 +1,26 @@
-Enlightenment DR17 use freedesktop.org .desktop files according to the
+Enlightenment DR17 uses freedesktop.org .desktop files according to the
XDG Desktop Entry Specification version 0.9.4, icon themes according to
the XDG Icon Theme Specification version 0.11, and menus according to
-the Desktop Menu Specification version 0.92. There are some extensions
-though.
+the Desktop Menu Specification version 0.92. Everything is searched for
+in paths specified by XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.6.
+There are some extensions and gotchas though.
-.desktop extensions.
+Paths.
+
+The spec wants us to run gnome-config and kde-config several times at
+startup. This is currently #if'ed out and replaced with guesses. Lots
+of guesses is a lot quicker than actually running those programs, and
+often is good enough. The plan is to have an idle process run those
+programs and fix the guesses.
+
+A lot of distro specific quirks can be solved by adding more directories
+and directory snippets to the ecore_desktop_paths code. The process of
+eliminating non existing directories is quick, and only done once at
+start up.
+
+
+.desktop.
Two extension fields are defined as allowed by the specification.
@@ -34,11 +49,34 @@
field.
-Icon theme extensions.
+Icon theme.
.edj files are searched for before the other types of icon file. The
"icon" group is used to specify the graphics for the icon. It is up to
the code using the result to allow full edje interactions and
animations, and people that write that code are encouraged to support it
all.
+
+
+Menus.
+
+The most complex, and thus the most problematic of the specifications.
+The general philosophy is to err on the side of caution, giving the user
+more apps in their menus rather than less. Even if that means some
+duplicates and some things that aren't really apps.
+
+There is often a .hidden menu, it contains various types of things.
+Some of those things are supposed to be moved into proper menus by the
+menu moving part of the spec. The menu moving code has not been
+implemented yet. Following the above philosophy, it is shown to the
+user.
+
+Slackware and probably other distros use parent style menu merging.
+Initially I did not write code to support that for two reasons. The
+specification is confusing, and it takes some digging and cross
+referencing other specs to sort out what it actually means. The other
+reason is that distros available to me at the time for testing did not
+use parent style menu merging, so there was no way to test it properly.
+Now that I know of at least one distro that uses them, it's worthwhile
+writing the code, and installing slackware under QEMU for testing.
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