Re: [Tracker] Application Indexing

["John Stowers" <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On 2/27/07, Marcus Rosell <mudflap75 gmail com> wrote:
> Hi List.
>
> I have started implementing indexing of applications (extracted from
> .desktop files), and there is some infra questions to discuss.
>
> There is no standard of the metadata attributes for applications what I have
> found (the "App" namespace).
> I think it make sense to use the same attribute names as in the desktop
> entry standard.
>
> App:Name
> App:Comment
> App:GenericName
> App:Category (might be useful)
>
> What do you think?

Makes sense. I started looking at this also, but got distracted. Its a
shame we cant depend on GNOME becuase a lot of the desktop file
parsing has already been done in gnome-menus and friends [1]
(desktop-entry.c, etc)

Still it would probbably be an OK copy and paste job considering most
of the hard stuff is done by GKeyFile which is in glib.

Good luck,

John

[1] http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnome-menus/trunk/libmenu/