On Tuesday 18 November 2014 23:45:56 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > I didn't even know we were using json now. Why did we change from .desktop > file to .json ones? What's the benefit? Seems like .desktop files did their > job good enough and we have all the tooling available already.
Because that's what Qt uses - Qt5 plugins have JSON metadata as standard, meaning it's all in one file (the JSON is embedded in the plugin, although it can be read without loading the plugin). Alex
