Re: app wrappers and gworkspace

[Raffael Herzog]

Alex Perez wrote:

> Please note that I am not saying we shouldnot use appwrappers, just that  
> they should be automagically generated fornon-gnustep apps in a more  
> intelligent, canonical manner. The easy way ofgoing about this in a  
> non-gnustep-centric, standardized way is by using.desktop entries, per  
> the specification (which, as I will re-iterate, isalready in widespread  
> use outside of the GNUstep comminuty) here: 
> http://freedesktop.org/Standards/desktop-entry-spec/0.9.4/

That's a very nice idea. I've just included some very rudimentary support  
for loading .desktop files, but it's far from complete and I didn't manage  
yet to tell GNUstep to save it as .app even though it's been loaded from a  
.desktop file (the Cocoa docs state that setting NSRole=Viewer for  
.desktop files should do the job, but gnustep-gui doesn't seem to honour  
this).

By StepTalk-enabling GSWrapper this could be made scriptable so that you  
just need to run a script to get a bunch of wrappers. Or, maybe, I'll  
simply include it in GSWrapper.

Anyway, I'm planning to release this week-end.

cu,
   Raffi

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