On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:40:17 -0300 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said:
> Efreet is a core technology for E17, but we need a maintainer for it. > Mekius is busy, as we all are, so if you have some spare time to help > with it, please say so :-) > > I used to work a bit with efreet doing code for E17 and my > netbook-launcher and noticed some problems. Then I have to use > glib/gnome parsing and notice some differences, specially with mime > types and icon finding. So we definitively need to improve standards > compliance... and speed, Efreet is so slow it do not feels like E > technology :-) indeed, but who will take up the baton and run. i'm already spread thin. efreet needs: 1. massive speed improvements. things like mmapable cache files of all .desktop data that can just be instantly mapped into memory (and sequentially pre-cached by just reading all the data in it). 2. updates to new standard changes. 3. more robust update handling. on really slow systems, efreet will detect a new .desktop file sometimes when its partly written, or .desktop is written before icon exists etc. so a search for the icon comes up blank. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel