Tons of questions. And some patches

[Frans Englich]

On Sunday 25 January 2004 17:53, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sunday 25 January 2004 16:07, Frans Englich wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 January 2004 15:36, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > On Saturday 24 January 2004 15:27, Frans Englich wrote:
> > > > Below is a pile of questions and tiny patches. If it was a bad
> > > > idea grouping it all in one mail I will split it up in smaller
> > > > ones(or some other better way).
> > > >
> > > > * AFAICT there is clear advantages of having desktop files in a
> > > > XML format. Why is it not so? Speed issues?
> > >
> > > The most obvious advantage I see with the .ini style .desktop files
> > > is that they're human read- and editable. With xml it's easy to
> > > forget closing a tag or the like, making parsers bail out and stop
> > > processing.
> >
> > Exactly, and that's a good thing :) .desktop files is something you
> > write once and then it's done.
>
> Wrong. The translators add translations to desktop files. So desktop
> files are actually changed quite often (at least once for each
> language).

But isn't the editing of those(both extracting and putting back the 
translation) made automatically by Stephan's scripty script? Thus, the 
translator aspect is irrelevant?

Anyway, this seem to become a long thread, I was just curious why the .ini 
style was chosen in front of XML/DTD :)

Cheers,

			Frans