Re: [Nautilus-list] continued redhat merge

[Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Darin Adler wrote:

> on 9/17/01 9:48 AM, Alex Larsson at alexl redhat com wrote:
> 
> > Using eel_read_entire_file sounds like a good idea.
> 
> We probably also want to add a maximum size parameter to
> eel_read_entire_file because it's probably never a good idea to read a whole
> file into a buffer in memory without any bound on how much data you are
> going to read. Or rather, we want to add a newly named function to avoid
> incompatibility with older nautilus and newer eel. On HEAD we can have only
> the single function with the maximum file size. Also, we can change it so
> that it always puts a '\0' after the file at the same time, since that hurts
> nothing and helps in this case.

Ok. I will backport the new one and call it 
eel_read_entire_file_with_limit() or something.
 
> >> Since nautilus_file_is_nautilus_link is changing function, I'd ideally like
> >> to see it change its name too, but then again that would also mean changing
> >> the names of everything in nautilus-link* files so I guess we can leave it
> >> alone as long as we make a nice comment to explain that "Nautilus link"
> >> means ".desktop file or historical Nautilus link file". I don't see such a
> >> comment anywhere in the diff.
> > 
> > I will add such a comment.
> 
> I have since realized that "historical" Nautilus link files are still needed
> for things like the trash file on the desktop. It would be great if someone
> changed it so that wasn't true, or made the trash use a .desktop file
> instead (with a suitable additional key in the .desktop file, I guess). But
> anyway, calling it "historical" might be premature if we still need it for
> more than just compatibility.

So, what do we do about the file naming? I can do a full rename of the 
nautilus_link_ prefix if you want (and have a better name in mind).

> >> What's the status on the code inside "#if ADDITIONAL_TEXT_DISABLED"? Lets
> >> remove this feature completely, or turn it back on.
> > 
> > It was disabled, because the text stored in the .desktop files was often
> > really bad.
> > 
> > Stuff like:
> > Name=Emacs
> > Comment=Emacs
> > just made it look really bad.
> 
> But this also disables the additional text from the old Nautilus link files.
> If .directory files Content are not suitable for additional text, that
> should be changed in the desktop back end for the link code, rather than
> disabling display of additional text here in the directory view.

Yes. Will fix.

/ Alex