Desktop entry parser. Proposal for inclusion in libxfce4util.

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi Jasper,

You have my total approbation :)

This is a long needed feature and the only way to achieve desktop
entries (I mean having an API to access entries).

Go, shoot ;)

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 11:24, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> In order to support .desktop files in future versions of xfce apps
> (panel, menu, etc), I wrote a small desktop file parser.
> 
> I think it has a nice API and it seem to work well. There is no write
> support, but that can be added when we need it.
> 
> Attached is the header file and I have a test tarball here:
> 
> http://members.home.nl/xfce4/files/test_dentries.tar.bz2
> 
> Just type make to build the test program. To print some info about one
> or more desktop files, run this:
> 
>   ./test_dentries <desktop files>
> 
> I'd like to add this to libxfce4util if you have no objections. People
> are starting to work on .desktop file support and it seems to me we
> should have this functionality available to all apps.
> 
> Benedikt, I want this to be licensed under LGPL, basically because I
> don't want to worry about copying code from gnome/gtk implementations.
> Do you mind about having different licences in libxfce4util?
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> 	Jasper
> 
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