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Desktop links for GNUstep apps


From: Fred Kiefer
Subject: Desktop links for GNUstep apps
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 19:02:28 +0100

In an attempt to make GNUstep programs more aware to the outside world I
wrote a little program that converts a GNUstep Info property list into a
desktop link. This format is a common agreement of KDE and Gnome to
store information about runable programs. To be honest it is a lot less
useful than the Info files, but as long as only Apple and we are using
them (and even we use different entries in the file) it should be good
to support this format also.

We could add the pl2link program to the make process of an application, 
it would convert the Info-gnustep.plist file into an .desktop file for
that application, which could be placed at the right spot for the
running window manager (for KDE this is somewhere below
/opt/kde2/share/applnk/, for Gnome /opt/gnome/share/gnome/apps/, but
this might be system specific). That way a GNUstep application would fit
in better for those window managers.

Speaking of different window managers. Is there anybody about to
implement NET or EWMH, as Adam now calls it, support into our X back
ends? If not I might take that task. It looks like I am the only GNUstep
developer who is not using WindowMaker as his default window manager
(although I try it from time to time).

Fred




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