How about add an option in uxlaunch to set environment variables using
parameters and using the sysconfig file?
Will the uxlaunch be used for meego?
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Leonardo Luiz Padovani da Mata
<leonar...@syst.com.br> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Auke Kok <auke-jan.h....@intel.com> wrote:
>> On 03/17/10 12:54, Leonardo Luiz Padovani da Mata wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Auke Kok<auke-jan.h....@intel.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 03/09/10 09:55, Luis Tiago C Eterovick wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to know how are defined the folders that contains .desktop
>>>>> files
>>>>> for the system to read. I want to create a directory with higher
>>>>> priority
>>>>> than /usr/share/applications, but unlike other distros (and according to
>>>>> freedesktop standards), it didn't apply by just setting the environment
>>>>> variable XDG_DATA_DIRS. Is there any other way to do that?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> there's a known bug in uxlaunch (well, it's a design issue really) where
>>>> it
>>>> does not do any environment setup at all when it starts the users X
>>>> session:
>>>> subsequently, the panel parts run without any XDG_DATA_DIRS set in their
>>>> environments.
>>>>
>>>> We fixed this recently in git, but this change will likely not go out to
>>>> older releases. You can verify this by starting a terminal WITHOUT making
>>>> it
>>>> "a login shell" and looking at your environment - it will likely not have
>>>> XDG_DATA_DIRS set. You can also look at /var/log/uxlaunch.log.
>>>>
>>>> apart from this fix, I don't know whether the panel does the right thing
>>>> at
>>>> this time, which would be a new bug.
>>>
>>> To test this feature, i've tried to mannually set the variable inside
>>> the options.c file, using
>>> setenv("XDG_DATA_DIRS","/usr/share/my_desktops",1);
>>>
>>> I was abble to see the change inside the /var/log/uxlaunch.log file,
>>> but the .desktop files are still comming from the default path.
>>>
>>> Can you point me where in the code this was fixed?
>>
>> I think the problem in this case is that uxlaunch itself is probably not
>> parsing XDG_DATA_DIRS at all when starting up .desktop files, and that would
>> be a new bug. That should be visible in desktop.c without much problem
>>
>> Auke
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
> One thing that i notice is that this variable should be available in
> the environment of the moblin-panel-applications process running.
>
>
>
> --
> Leonardo Luiz Padovani da Mata
> barr...@syst.com.br
>
> "May the force be with you, always"
> "Nerd Pride... eu tenho. Voce tem?"
>
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Leonardo Luiz Padovani da Mata
barr...@syst.com.br
"May the force be with you, always"
"Nerd Pride... eu tenho. Voce tem?"
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