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List:       moblin-dev
Subject:    Re: [Moblin Dev] Application Information and Launching - Genesis
From:       Jeetu Golani <jeetu.golani () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-01-23 20:40:10
Message-ID: 201001240158.10721.jeetu.golani () gmail ! com
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Hi Ross,

Thanks so much for replying....will try reading the desktop files :)

Bye for now

On Sunday 24 January 2010, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 17:29 +0500, Jeetu Golani wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'd like to get information related to the installed applications under
> > Moblin and be able to launch these applications. I've come across the
> > genesis project that is supposedly for this purpose however the link at
> > http://moblin.org/community/blogs/raymond/2008/genesis-now-support-
dbus-i
> >nterfaceto get the code isn't working.
> >
> > I would appreciate if someone could point me to the code base of Genesis
> > or something similar, any tutorials and code samples would be profusely
> > appreciated.
> 
> Genesis was a prototype and isn't used, you can find out the installed
> applications by reading the desktop files in /usr/share/applications/.
> See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/desktop-entry-spec
> and other associated specifications on freedesktop.org for the specs,
> and you'll probably want to use GKeyFile to parse them.
> 
> Ross
> 

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