Re: GnomeDesktopItem

[Anders Carlsson <andersca gnu org>]

On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 19:15, Darin Adler wrote:
> There doesn't seem to be a way to create a GnomeDesktopItem from the
> already-streamed-in contents of a desktop file. This means I can't use it in
> Nautilus, since we have to be able to parse a desktop file once Nautilus
> already read the contents into memory using gnome-vfs async. calls.
> 
> What can we do about this? Does Nautilus need to keep its own
> NautilusDesktopFile class :-(
> 

AFAIK the gnome-desktop API is marked as unstable so it should be
possible to add such a function. (Not sure if it's easy to do so
though).

Anders