Re: Removing GnomeDesktopItem API from gnome-desktop

[Sandy Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com>]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> Le vendredi 02 juillet 2010, à 06:12 -0700, Sandy Armstrong a écrit :
>> On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I want to remove the GnomeDesktopItem API from gnome-desktop. It's an
>> > old API that is not needed anymore in our world with GKeyFile and
>> > GDesktopAppInfo.
>
> [...]
>
>> For what it's worth, I was just about to start using this API in
>> Tomboy as part of
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580422 (see comment 21, and
>> comments 45 and below).
>
> As far as I understand, you don't really need this API. You just need to
> add/remove a file in the autostart dir. Is there any reason to not do it
> with the usual API for that?
>
> Ah, I see you need to change the Exec key. GKeyFile can do that, no idea
> if it's wrapped in mono, though :/

It also has unofficial bindings floating around.

But you're right that since we control our .desktop file we could
easily achieve this without use of the API at all.

Thanks,
Sandy