Re: Is gnome fully compliant with freedesktop sepc? Any know issues?

2013-01-18 Thread jupiter
in general, if you want to set environmental variables, you should env command. I am not to set environment variable, but to use environment variable in desktop entry file. Or did you mean you can set up env command in desktop entry file? Can you show full Exec line you used? I have

Re: Is gnome fully compliant with freedesktop sepc? Any know issues?

2013-01-18 Thread Frederic Crozat
2013/1/18 jupiter jupiter@gmail.com: in general, if you want to set environmental variables, you should env command. I am not to set environment variable, but to use environment variable in desktop entry file. Or did you mean you can set up env command in desktop entry file? Can you

Re: Is gnome fully compliant with freedesktop sepc? Any know issues?

2013-01-18 Thread jupiter
Using environment variable is not part of the specification. It is an extension done by KDE. Does that mean there is no chance to set Path to user home directory in gnome, which is a very common setup? How is the latest version GNOME 3.4 Release? Any chance to set up Path to user home

Re: Is gnome fully compliant with freedesktop sepc? Any know issues?

2013-01-18 Thread Frederic Crozat
2013/1/18 jupiter jupiter@gmail.com: Using environment variable is not part of the specification. It is an extension done by KDE. Does that mean there is no chance to set Path to user home directory in gnome, which is a very common setup? How is the latest version GNOME 3.4 Release? Any

Re: Is gnome fully compliant with freedesktop sepc? Any know issues?

2013-01-18 Thread Simon McVittie
On 18/01/13 11:37, jupiter wrote: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Exec=$HOME/MyApp Name=My Application Icon=$HOME/Icons/MyIcon.png As others have noted, the desktop-file spec doesn't have any special handling for $ in keys. It could be argued

Re: Is gnome fully compliant with freedesktop sepc? Any know issues?

2013-01-18 Thread jupiter
AFAIK, it is the case by default, no need to specify it. No, without setting the Path $HOME, the default path would be in the application installation directory such as /usr/local. On 1/18/13, Frederic Crozat f...@crozat.net wrote: 2013/1/18 jupiter jupiter@gmail.com: Using environment

Re: Is gnome fully compliant with freedesktop sepc? Any know issues?

2013-01-18 Thread jupiter
On 1/18/13, Simon McVittie simon.mcvit...@collabora.co.uk wrote: On 18/01/13 11:37, jupiter wrote: [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Exec=$HOME/MyApp Name=My Application Icon=$HOME/Icons/MyIcon.png As others have noted, the desktop-file spec

Build the latest release gnome on CentOS 6

2013-01-18 Thread jupiter
Hi, A sanity check before I am building the latest release gnome, is the following document the updated instruction to build gnome desktop? http://developer.gnome.org/jhbuild/unstable/getting-started.html.en Appreciate any tips to build the gnome desktop. Thank you. Kind regards. j