Re: [E-devel] freedesktops standards???

[Ben F. <be...@ka...>]

Shish wrote:

>> What do you mean by incompatible with other apps?
>>
>> Can you not launch gnome/kde applications from enlightenment?  Can 
>> you not run EFL apps when running gnome or KDE?
>
>
> The issue isn't the apps, but the launcher menus and such; the things 
> that FDO are trying to standardise...
>
> The point is that while vendors can ship for both KDE and GNOME 
> without serious effort, they have to go to an extra length to support 
> E -- if E supported the .desktop files, then it could add itself to 
> the "supported desktop environments" list of lots of apps; I doubt 
> that all the package maintainers who ship .desktop files will be 
> willing to add .eapps to satisfy a small minority of the users.
>
> Personally I'd rather be able to use my existing launch menu heirarchy 
> than have to manually create my own menus for E, with not a great deal 
> of benefit (that I can see, anyway - does the E menu do anything that 
> FDO's .desktop files don't?)


I'm sure it's not much trouble to write a script to transform a .desktop 
based menu system into an E menu.

-b