xfdesktop

[edscott wilson garcia]

El vie, 14-03-2003 a las 03:20, Jasper Huijsmans escribió:
> On 13 Mar 2003 22:03:09 -0600
> edscott wilson garcia <edscott at imp.mx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I followed Jasper's example for xffm and used libxml in xffm. If GLib
> > XML parser instead has advantages, the xfce4panel, xffm, and the
> > respective mcs-plugins should be modified too. Are there significant 
> > advantages that make it worth the time investment?
> > 
> 
> I have been wondering that, but I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
> I think the required extra code gets larger very soon if you want to
> parse a tree with many levels and many possible tags. This is not based
> on any experience or deep insight, though; it's more a gut feeling :)

I must admit that writing a new xfce4rc parser for the xffm applications
was quite a mental exercise, with two recursive functions jumping to and
fro (to keep code compact). Moving to Glib XML would probably be
difficult, me thinks.

Edscott