On Friday 03 March 2006 13:22, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday 03 March 2006 04:16, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > shouldn't we support this by default, without using the special $e? Not > > sure if there might be conflicts, but usually, in UNIX config files you > > can use environment variables, so it makes sense to support them also > > on .desktop files. > > it's more than just env vars, it's full commands. given that "replace this > value with the contents of this env var or the results of this command" > seems to be the irregular and "use this value literally" is the > overwhelming common case, we ought to keep [$e]. it also has the nice side > effect of making such dynamic options explicit, making accidental errors > less common.
I don't think $e belongs in .desktop files. In fact I would strongely urge to disable support in KDE for it. It's ok for config files but not for .desktop files. Cheers, Waldo -- Linux Client Architect - Channel Platform Solutions Group - Intel Corporation
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