On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 10:11 -0600, Yevgen Muntyan wrote: > Hi there, > > Does GAppInfo make sense on Windows and Mac? It doesn't > build on win32, and it's not quite clear whether the fix is > to provide stubs or to remove the code completely. > What is it for, are normal applications going to use it? Perhaps > it's an X-specific (that is, specific to platforms which use freedesktop.org > specs) functionality needed by Nautilus and friends, > while on win32 and mac all that's needed is some > g_open_file_somehow()? Perhaps applications do need > some information about "what application handles this > file type or this file", but then probably some special API > should be provided exactly for that, while a xdg desktop > wrapper should be left for X, as X-specific API. >
I haven't built of Win32 in a while, so I can't say anything about the current state. However, GAppInfo is clearly not X-specific in any way, as its an abstract interface. There is even an Win32 implementation gwin32appinfo.c (that at least used to work last time I tried it). _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
