One more show-stopper for auto-discovery of OpenGL apps is the fact that some applications load libGL dynamically at run-time. I haven't got any feedback to my "GL application survey", but at the moment I see a built-in database (does lookup-table sound less scary?) of known GL applications as the only realistic solution. I will have to rely on user-feedback for new entries. I'm hoping that the existance of an application menu with a lack of entries will provide sufficient incentive.
Regards, Felix Am Sonntag, den 29.01.2006, 19:35 -0800 schrieb Donnie Berkholz: > Felix Kühling wrote: > > Yeah, but these are exactly the hard cases that are most confusing to > > users and that I'm trying to solve. Also some executables don't have > > very descriptive names, like "fgfs" for FlightGear. It's also impossible > > to sort auto-detected applications into meaningful categories. Maybe > > parsing of the menus of the desktop environment would be feasible > > instead? http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fmenu_2dspec defines a > > distro-neutral standard for such menus. On my Debian box the Gnome menus > > aren't too helpful in terms of completeness and categorization of > > applications. But the Debian menu would come pretty close. Do other > > distributions have something equivalent? > > I agree on some of your points, but maintaining a database of all 3D > applications in existence will probably be a ton of work, won't scale > well, and will always be missing stuff, so any alternative would be welcome. > > As far as the menus go, Gentoo just uses whatever upstream installs. > > Donnie > -- | Felix Kühling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fxk.de.vu | | PGP Fingerprint: 6A3C 9566 5B30 DDED 73C3 B152 151C 5CC1 D888 E595 | ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
