Project Summary
Features:
Straight C-implementation of serializable AVL trees;
Access to "Shared MIME-info Database" by using of freedesktop.org xdgmime library;
Indexed (by using of AVL trees) access to all ".desktop" files and its contents (implementation of "Desktop Entry Specification");
Cache all (include indexes) gathered information from all ".desktop" and ".list" files ("Desktop Entry Specification") into one single binary file which then can be mmap'ed without a single allocation of memory (just updates pointers in mmap'ed memory);
Indexed (by using of AVL trees) access to icon themes and its contents (implemetation of "Icon Theme Specification" and "Icon Naming Specification");
Editable set of implemented specifications (at build time);
No dependencies.
In a Nutshell, libxdg...
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took an estimated 3 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in October, 2003
ending with its most recent commit about 10 years ago
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