Launching .desktop files with GIO

[Nick Schermer]

2009/8/24 Brian J. Tarricone <brian at tarricone.org>:
> On 08/23/2009 03:12 PM, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>> That's pretty bad of course. Once again, I think we should push for a
>> standardization of preferred applications of certain types (browser,
>> email, terminal would be a good start).
>
> Well, I'm impressed that it actually handles it at all.  This is a
> decent start, I guess.  I'm happy with "ignoring" the terminal problem
> for now.  Users who actually make use of Terminal=true can either use
> one of those apps, or pick one that they don't have installed and
> symlink it to xfterm4 or whatever.  Not a great solution, but I think
> it'll have to do until there's a more generic solution.

Opened bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592857

Not really happy with the terminal things, because if the panel is
going to use this it will result in a lot of bugs and annoyed users.
Anyway, we can probably work around that using an object on top of
GDesktopAppInfo that handles this part of the code, until it is fixed
in Glib.

Maybe we can also drop the spawn code from 4ui? That would be nice.

Nick