If a GNOME module implements published FreeDesktop specifications, such as
the desktop entry specification, or the menu specification, it should
always be specificiation-compliant. Of course, bugs in implementations are
always possible, and if you have issues with any of our implementations,
please file bugs in Bugzilla.
Now, on the specific question about the "desktop specification", I cannot
find a part of the specification that requires parsing of environment
variables. In fact, it says [0]:
The name or path of the executable program may not contain the equal
sign ("="). Arguments are separated by a space.
So, it is required behavior that we do not parse environment variables in
Exec lines, and that we abort on any Exec line that has an equals sign.
[0] http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s06.html
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:28 AM, jupiter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A year ago, I developed an application menu system based on
> freedesktop spec for Linux desktop system. Unfortunately, it did not
> work in gnome, but works perfect on xfce and kde. I was not clear if
> gnome is not compliant with freedesktop spec, or if gnome uses its own
> desktop spec. Even today, if I switch from thunar to nautilus file
> manager, the desktop launcher cannot run due to it could not interpret
> environmental variables such as "path=$HOME".
>
> But I could be missing some thing in gnome as well. I am currently
> look for if we can run the menu system in gnome and appreciate any
> comments and helps.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kind regards.
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