+On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:20:07 +0000 Till Varoquaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Bbabbled: (B (B> I was reading freedesktop's various standards. I know there is a (B> choice not to use .desktop files since they are heavy to parse and so (B> on. I fully understand your choice and respect. However since (B> freedesktops standards and more and more based upon .desktop files xml (B> and so one I am warry that efl based applications will be more and (B> more incompatible with the other apps. (B (Bthe plan is to have tools to import any standard (including fd.o's) into e's own (Brepository for your user. think of e's app lists as a cache and tools (Bsync/import from fd.o files or others. remember that systems that are older may (Bnot use fd.o's standard - so we can make tools to handle those. this means u can (Bremove the need for handling N different standards from the core code and have (Btranslation tools that read the fd.o standards, import and create.modify .eapp (Bfiles and dirs etc. thats the intent. making gui app importing wizards, ones (Bthat work even without fd.o menu trees or kde or gnome trees (the older (B.applink files) that can just hunt the entire disk for executables, see if they (Blink to libqt or libgtk or libx11 - if the app does, look for function symbols (Bthat would indicate they pop up a main window. this way u can find gui apps on a (Bsystem without meta data. because of the varied menu systems i made a choice to (Bmake e agnostic in that regard and not weld itself to ONE camp - it has its (Binternal format (just like gnome and kde have formats IN RAM that are local to (Btheir panel or launcher etc.) we have our local internal format on-disk instead. (B:) (B (B> I'd like to know if you have a plan a vision etc... on how you intend (B> to handle this. Do you intend to make your own standard build a (B> translation layer or anything else. (B (Byes. tools to sync/import etc. is the plan. :) if anyone wants to help... please (Bdo! if you can make a good importer to import fd.o menus now that'd be great! if (Byou feel like adding other things like i mentioned above (hunting your $PATH or (Ball directories on the system for executable files that look like they might be (Ban app), handling older gnome menu files and kde applink systems and so on... (Bthat's a viable project on its own. :) (B (B-- (B------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- (BThe Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] $BMg9%B?(B [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BTokyo, Japan ($BEl5~(B $BF|K\(B) (B (B (B------------------------------------------------------- (BSF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide (BRead honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. (BDiscover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. (Bhttp://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click (B_______________________________________________ (Benlightenment-devel mailing list ([email protected] (Bhttps://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
