Le vendredi 18 janvier 2013, à 15:40 +0000, Jerome Leclanche a écrit : > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Vincent Untz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Le vendredi 18 janvier 2013, à 22:48 +1100, jupiter a écrit : > > > The current issue is that adding an environment variable such as $HOME > > > in desktop entry file as following example works with KDE file manager > > > and Thunar when to click a desktop launcher (copy an application menu > > > icon to the desktop), but does not work with nautilus, the error was > > > "Failed to change directory $HOME (No such file or directory)" > > > > > > Path=$HOME > > > > There's no support for environment variables in the desktop entry spec, > > and therefore there's no guarantee that this will work on all > > implementations. > > > > We've hit the same issue at Razor a few times. Assuming we can get GNOME to > implement envvar support in desktop files, would you be opposed to adding > it to the spec? I really don't think it's good that currently half of the > implementations can treat the same PATH differently.
Nope, I wouldn't be opposed to it as long as it's well-defined, that many people see a use for it and that most desktops are happy with it. So I guess we need a proper patch and some convincing for some desktops. There's the question of backwards compatibility, but I guess not a lot of desktop files are using $. It might also be worth investigating which desktop environments (and base libraries, such as glib and qt) support this and which ones don't. Cheers, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
