Re: Google Summer of Code

[Philippe Roussel]

Hi,

Le 07/02/2012 11:07, Niels Grewe a écrit :
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> Am 07.02.2012 10:56, schrieb Sebastian Reitenbach:
> > AFAIK, there doesn't exist something the other way around, allowing other 
> > application to create
> > an App Wrapper automatically. Even if that would exist, you'd still have to get 
> > others to make use of
> > it, which I think is then the harder part.
> >
> > I'd also really like to have an applications menu in GWorkspace, built from the 
> > information from those
> > .desktop files in /usr/local/share/applications, that would allow me to browse 
> > all installed applications
> > and just start them from the menu ;)
>
> A while ago I pondered whether it would be a good idea to write a fuse
> filesystem that uses the xdg-menu data (which spread out through the
> filesystem, not just in /usr/local/share/applications, mind you!) to
> dynamically generate wrappers. You would just mount it at
> /GNUstep/Applications/Legacy and be done :-). I still think it's a neat
> idea, maybe worth putting forward as a potential GSoC project?

Well, it sure is neat but adding .desktop files support to GWorkspace is 
probably easier and would do the trick nicely I think :o)

GWorkpace could also support transparent access to remote filesystems 
(ftp, smb, ssh, webdav ?), that would be nice.

Philippe