On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:04:18 +0900, The Rasterman Carsten Haitzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 22:20:07 +0000 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 > > freedesktops standards and more and more based upon .desktop files xml > > and so one I am warry that efl based applications will be more and > > more incompatible with the other apps. > > the plan is to have tools to import any standard (including fd.o's) into e's > own > repository for your user. think of e's app lists as a cache and tools > sync/import from fd.o files or others. remember that systems that are older > may > not use fd.o's standard - so we can make tools to handle those. this means u > can > remove the need for handling N different standards from the core code and have > translation tools that read the fd.o standards, import and create.modify .eapp > files and dirs etc. thats the intent. making gui app importing wizards, ones > that work even without fd.o menu trees or kde or gnome trees (the older > .applink files) that can just hunt the entire disk for executables, see if > they > link to libqt or libgtk or libx11 - if the app does, look for function symbols > that would indicate they pop up a main window. this way u can find gui apps > on a > system without meta data. because of the varied menu systems i made a choice > to > make e agnostic in that regard and not weld itself to ONE camp - it has its > internal format (just like gnome and kde have formats IN RAM that are local to > their panel or launcher etc.) we have our local internal format on-disk > instead. > :) > > > I'd like to know if you have a plan a vision etc... on how you intend > > to handle this. Do you intend to make your own standard build a > > translation layer or anything else. > > yes. tools to sync/import etc. is the plan. :) if anyone wants to help... > please > do! if you can make a good importer to import fd.o menus now that'd be great! > if > you feel like adding other things like i mentioned above (hunting your $PATH > or > all directories on the system for executable files that look like they might > be > an app), handling older gnome menu files and kde applink systems and so on... > that's a viable project on its own. :) There is already a tool allowing you to convert one config file to another and reciprocally using template file. This is libconf at http://libconf.net/
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