efreet_main(3)

NAME
efreet_main - Efreet

Table of Contents

•   Introduction
•   How to compile
•   Next Steps

Introduction
Efreet is a library designed to help apps work several of the Freedesktop.org standards regarding Icons, Desktop files and Menus. To that end it implements the following specifications:
•   XDG Base Directory Specification
•   Icon Theme Specification
•   Desktop Entry Specification
•   Desktop Menu Specification
•   FDO URI Specification
•   Shared Mime Info Specification
•   Trash Specification

How to compile
Efreet is a library your application links to. The procedure for this is very simple. You simply have to compile your application with the appropriate compiler flags that the pkg-config script outputs. Mime and Thrash are separated modules. For example, to compile with mime support:
Compiling C or C++ files into object files:
gcc -c -o main.o main.c `pkg-config --cflags efreet efreet-mime`
Linking object files into a binary executable:
gcc -o my_application main.o `pkg-config --libs efreet efreet-mime`
See pkgconfig

Next Steps
After you understood what Efreet is and installed it in your system you should proceed understanding the programming interface.
Recommended reading:
•   Efreet_Base: The XDG Base Directory Specification for base directory specification (XDG variables).
•   Efreet_Desktop: The FDO Desktop Entry to access .desktop files
•   Efreet_Menu: The FDO Desktop Menu Specification to access menus of .desktop files
•   Efreet_Mime: The XDG Shared Mime Info standard to identify files based on extension or header.
•   Efreet_Trash: The XDG Trash Specification to access file trash implementation.
•   Efreet_Ini for parsing INI-like key-value files.
•   Efreet_Uri: The FDO URI Specification functions for URI parsing and encoding.
•   Efreet utilities for FDO general utilities.