Re: [Vala] gnome-desktop usage..

["Travis Watkins" <amaranth ubuntu com>]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Shawn Ferris <shawnmferris yahoo com> wrote:
>  > Here scope of var di ends which shadows the DesktopItem di.
>
>  I was sure I sent a reply to everyone, but apparently not..
>
>  I had actually considered that.. this was only one of many attempt to get it to work.
>  One of my previous attempts was written:
>
>     DesktopItem di;
>
>     try {
>
>       di = new DesktopItem.from_file(
>         "test.desktop",
>         DesktopItemLoadFlags.ONLY_IF_EXISTS
>       );
>
>     } catch(GLib.Error err) {
>       message( err.message );
>     }
>
>     if ( di != null ) {
>       message( di.get_string("Name") );
>     }
>
>  and this behaves the same. I've even tried moving the message/get_string
>  into the try block itself, and no go. (di is still null and no errors are thrown)
>
>  Is there something else I'm missing?
>
>  Appreciate it!
>  Shawn

Why not just use GKeyFile from glib? One less dependency and only
slightly more work (you have to tell it you want the "Desktop Entry"
group).


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