Idea about extended menus

[Edscott Wilson García]

On Sáb 30 Mar 2002 11:16, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> Nautilus treats the .desktop menu heirarchy as a seperate virtual file
> system (programs:)

Interesting... I noticed that gnome-vfs was necesary for nautilus and I wonder 
if the .desktop virtual file system processing gets done with it. 
It seems nautilus 1.06  is a bit buggy for the .desktop files because although 
it can navigate through the gnome location (/usr/share/apps) it cannot do the  
KDE tree (/opt/kde2/share/applnk). 

Either way, (konqueror or nautilus) the way it works is very similar to what 
xftree would need. Although some xftree functions (like touch, symlink, 
duplicate, filter, tar and rpm processing and other stuff) might be 
unnecesary while navigating a .desktop tree, and the code could be replaced 
for the code necesary to create the virtual file system of the .desktop tree.
Maybe by some dynamic linking. Or maybe by allocating memory on the heap, 
reading some binary stuff from the disk, casting the address as a function, 
and sending the program flow off that way. If this could be done, I think it 
could be made to work faster that dynamic linking. But I don't know if it is 
possible to execute instructions that reside on the heap. 

Edscott