From kde-devel Sat May 15 23:22:47 1999 From: Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 23:22:47 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Desktop Entry Standard / XML X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92681005908389 Several people have suggested to me that the new Desktop Entry Standard define the on-disk file in XML. What we really care about is the actual keys and values, the on-disk format isn't nearly as important. XML would give us a clearly defined, hierarchical system (something the current ini-like format lacks) which we already have a parser for in Qt 2.0. The GNOME guys are in favor of "fixing this" as well. They would have to go through the same sort of pain as us in switching to this new file format, as their on-disk format currently is INI-like as well. Comments welcome. --- Preston Brown Systems Engineer pbrown@redhat.com Red Hat Software, Inc.