Re: [E-devel] freedesktops standards???

2005-03-02 Thread joel vennin
On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:04:18 +0900, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:20:07 + Till Varoquaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I was reading freedesktop's various standards. I know there is a choice not to use .desktop files since they are heavy to

Re: [E-devel] freedesktops standards???

2005-03-02 Thread The Rasterman
+On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:20:07 + Till Varoquaux [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: I was reading freedesktop's various standards. I know there is a choice not to use .desktop files since they are heavy to parse and so on. I fully understand your choice and respect. However since

Re: [E-devel] freedesktops standards???

2005-02-27 Thread Till Varoquaux
My point was also that freedesktop is moving towards providing standards for an incresing number of things. .desktop files are going to be used in other areas than just menues (like associating run-actions to mime-types etc...) and while in the past ignoring came at really minor cost (and

[E-devel] freedesktops standards???

2005-02-26 Thread Till Varoquaux
I was reading freedesktop's various standards. I know there is a choice not to use .desktop files since they are heavy to parse and so on. I fully understand your choice and respect. However since freedesktops standards and more and more based upon .desktop files xml and so one I am warry that efl

Re: [E-devel] freedesktops standards???

2005-02-26 Thread D. Hageman
What do you mean by incompatible with other apps? Can you not launch gnome/kde applications from enlightenment? Can you not run EFL apps when running gnome or KDE? The .desktop files just describe how the application should be launched and how it should appear in the menus. It makes vendors

Re: [E-devel] freedesktops standards???

2005-02-26 Thread Shish
What do you mean by incompatible with other apps? Can you not launch gnome/kde applications from enlightenment? Can you not run EFL apps when running gnome or KDE? The issue isn't the apps, but the launcher menus and such; the things that FDO are trying to standardise... The point is that