Re: New menu standard

[Liam Quin <liam holoweb net>]

Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero wrote:
> jirka 5z com (2001-06-02 at 1447.45 -0700):
> > I don't think an XML file would be good.  Imagine this, you have to install
> > the file in your Makefile, how do you do it?  Parsing an xml file from a
> > script is not nice, parsing a PATH type env var is pretty simple.
> 
> We talked about it in IRC, a env var seemed to be accepted.

How much memory is it going to add to every process every user runs?
And, why is this IPC mechanism needed?

I don't see how it's easier to insert into an environment variable
than into a file... (and is it possible to change env vars on all
platofrms, e.v. ones without "setenv()" in C?)

> The other
> topic is how to create a standard for the desktop files that works for
> all projects and is easy to use but covering all we need; I dunno
> how that ended.
It's clearer there that XML makes sense.

And if XML is too hard to use from shell scripts, let's fix that.

Lee

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