Re: RFC - Storing translated values in a PropertyBag

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com> writes:

> I'm pretty confused; what exactly is a ditem moniker for and what on
> earth does it have to do with bonobo-config?  As in, as I understand it,
> a .desktop file is meant to be used mainly for defining a way to launch
> an application, describe it in a menu, etc.  It's really simple, has a
> well defined spec, and is used in only a few places in GNOME (mostly the
> panel and nautilus)?  Can you explain the rationale for having it here?
> I don't fully understand.

It's a moniker (or call it backend) for bonobo-config which can read/write
files in the format of .desktop files (GNOME 1.x + KDE config files).

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