On Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:51:25 +0100, Matthias Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 15:34 +0100, Christian Westgaard wrote:
On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:14:03 +0100, Matthias Clasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 15:46 +0100, Christian Westgaard wrote:
>>
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
>>
>> Does not specify the location of the update-desktop-database script.
>>
>> I currently test for XDG support like this:
>>
>> if update-desktop-database --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
>>
>> But when update-desktop-database is not in $PATH, I'm out of luck.
>>
>> Is there a better test? A specced one?
>>
>
> Well, common sense suggests to look in /usr/bin. Does that really needs
> to be explicit in the spec ? Come on.
Actually on SuSE update-desktop-database is not
located in /usr/bin nor in $PATH.
One might like to say that this means SuSE does
not follow the standard, but one cannot since:
The standard does not state explicitly that update-desktop-database must be in
$PATH
(nor that it must be in a specific location, like /usr/bin or $XDG_BIN_DIRS )
I personally think its silly to put a binary thats supposed to be used
by third-party apps out of $PATH. Maybe that should be made explicit in
the spec then.
Yup, that's what I think.
I don't think inventing yet another env var for this will
make things any better.
I agree. Which is why I put it in parentheses :)
--
Christian Westgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Developer and Project Manager
Opera Software ASA
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