Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-23 Thread Josselin Mouette
I just submitted #492027 with a patch to dh_desktop which will hardcode the path in most existing desktop files. Cheers, -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `-our own. Resi

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-11 Thread Joey Hess
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Depending on the environment makes the system less predictable. So does accepting input from the keyboard and network. Also, I've found that systems without a regular input of electrons have a much more reliable behavior. -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digit

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le mercredi 09 juillet 2008 à 13:14 +0200, Vincent Lefevre a écrit : > 3. In config files, $PATH is generally used when one doesn't know >the location of the program, for flexibility, but this is not >the case here (see point 1). > > Here the choice of specifying an executable relative to

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-07-09 14:46:22 +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:14:25PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > || The .desktop file distributed with the evince package > || (/usr/share/applications/evince.desktop) contains: > || > ||Exec=evince %U > || > || meaning that the user's

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 12:01:47PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:46:22PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:14:25PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > || The .desktop file distributed with the evince package > > || (/usr/share/applicati

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:46:22PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:14:25PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > || The .desktop file distributed with the evince package > || (/usr/share/applications/evince.desktop) contains: > || > ||Exec=evince %U > || > || meaning t

Re: .desktop files of GNOME apps and path to these applications

2008-07-09 Thread Vincent Zweije
On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 01:14:25PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: || The .desktop file distributed with the evince package || (/usr/share/applications/evince.desktop) contains: || ||Exec=evince %U || || meaning that the user's $PATH is taken into account. In general, || taking $PATH into ac