new menu vfs backend

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Hi,

While we're all coming clean about features. ;-) 

I'm working on a menu backend that uses the new spec at
http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/menu/draft/menu-spec/menu-spec.html
Code is in freedesktop.org CVS module desktop-file-utils.

It's basically working in read-only mode. I have to add editing, which
will take a bit more work, hopefully I'll have it end of next week or
at least after next weekend.

So basically first testable code will land about 1-2 weeks before the
feature freeze on June 9. Unless we want to land read-only mode before
then.

The plan is to use this backend in an upcoming Red Hat Linux
release. For that purpose I'll be attempting to stabilize the code
over approximately the 2.4 cycle. Whether we want to actually put it
in 2.4 doesn't make a big difference to me (the vfs backend is
standalone so is easy to "backport"), but the option is there.

The new menu spec does not change what applications do (they still
install to /usr/share/applications). It does however completely ignore
any user menu edits in ~/.gnome2, and I don't see any real way to
avoid that.

Havoc