Re: [Nautilus-list] John's .desktop icon patch

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

John Harper <jsh pixelslut com> writes:
> Havoc Pennington writes:
> |Has this patch been merged into mainstream Nautilus? If not what
> |changes do I need to make to get it ready?
> |
> |This is John Harper's patch to dig icons out of .desktop files (if
> |those files are coming over VFS).
> 
> The reason I didn't try to commit this to nautilus was because it used
> non-async vfs operations to read the .desktop files. I wasn't sure if
> this was acceptable (and I couldn't think of an alternative)
> 

For the controlled use-cases I have in mind (preferences:, sysconfig:,
starthere:, favorites:, programs:) I think it would be fine, maybe 
we could put in some hack to be sure we don't try to do the non-async
for http: or giant directories?

Havoc