Hi all, We're revisiting our desktop menu implementation in Xfce, and I'm looking at some old hacks I put into the old implementation to sanitise the Exec and/or TryExec keys before using them.
Regarding the TryExec key, what can I expect to find there? Are the 'field codes' allowed in the Exec key also allowed in TryExec (I would think/hope not)? How is quoting handled? Same as Exec? Basically my question is this: can I take the value of TryExec and pass it unaltered to something like g_find_program_in_path() and expect that to always work? If not, what are the problems with that? The desktop entry spec says very little about TryExec. Also, I'm realising the desktop entry spec is very ambiguous as to how to even use TryExec: "File name of a binary on disk used to determine if the program is actually installed. If not, entry may not show in menus, etc." What does 'used to determine' mean in this context? Was the original intention that the TryExec program should actually be *executed* to determine if the program is installed (my assumption is no)? Or is just verifying that the program exists, is in PATH, is exectuable, etc. all that's intended here? Thanks, Brian _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg