[maemo-developers] Documentation of Maemo extensions for .desktop files?

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi,

Thomas Perl wrote:
> I think it's in Hildon-Desktop, although you have to look through the
> source to extract the meaning of each field:

Thanks for the pointer!

The wiki mentions some other fields (and groups) which I don't see
mentioned here. Also, looking at the code I don't see where the standard
desktop fields are parsed either.

It's at this point that I point people to this article, which seems
relevant to the situation I find myself in:
http://www.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/05/13feature.html

Quote: "Over time, the only representation of the original knowledge
becomes the code itself, which by now is something we can run but not
exactly understand. It has become a process, something we can operate
but no longer rethink deeply. Even if you have the source code in front
of you, there are limits to what a human reader can absorb from
thousands of lines of text designed primarily to function, not to convey
meaning. When knowledge passes into code, it changes state; like water
turned to ice, it becomes a new thing, with new properties. We use it;
but in a human sense we no longer know it. "

Cheers,
Dave.

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