Widgetizing Appfinder

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Sat Jan 22 22:21:54 CET 2005


Eduard Roccatello wrote:
> Hello Folks!!! ;-)
> 
> I'm porting Appfinder to a widget to make it more reusable than in the
> past. After this step we should move the widget to libxfce4util to make
> it useful for other modules.
> 
> Some examples:
> - Panel may use appfinder widget to add new launchers
> - Menueditor may use appfinder to add launchers to the xfdesktop menu
> - Xfrun may use it for application harvesting
> - XfDesktop may use it for add launcher to the desktop.
> - As the code improves, Xffm could use it as "Open with.." feature
> 
> Xfce4-Appfinder would be only a container with added features :o)
> 
> What do you think about it?
> 

Exactly what I hoped you would do ;-)

Anyway, for the menu parsing I believe Benedikt wrote something better 
than what is currently in xfdesktop, so I think we would like to have 
that in libxfce4util and make the appfinder widget use it too.

	Jasper




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