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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 12 November 2013 14:56:23 Gerry Boland wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Ryan Lortie and Lars Ubernickel were at this years FreeDesktop Summit
> [1]. One thing they've mentioned to me is the fact that it was decided
> to have a binary cache of desktop files, to improve access and searching
> of that data.
> 
> This reminded me that our desktop file parsing situation is a bit of a
> mess. Right now we have multiple approaches:
> - unity (Qt) launcher uses QSettings ini file parser [should be standard
> compliant]

The launcher's parser is not 100% standard compliant and also this one needs 
to be replaced.

Br,
Michael