Bastian, Waldo wrote: [...]
The Exec key must contain a command line. A command line consists of an executable program optionally followed by one or more arguments. The executable program can either be specified with its full path or with the name of the executable only. If no full path is provided the executable is looked up in the $PATH used by the desktop environment. Arguments are separated by a space. A space can be included into an argument by enclosing the whole argument with either single or double quotes.
This part should mention that it is possible to include double-quotes into an argument by escaping it with a backslash. Otherwise some implementations will likely forget about this. Also, quoting can apply to the application name, not just the parameters.
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Implementations must take care not to expand field codes into multiple arguments unless explicitly instructed by this specification. This means that name fields, filenames and other replacements that can contain spaces must be passed as a single argument to the executable program after expansion.
It's a good idea to include this in the specification. Another question though: what happens if a filename contains a space and the parameter is "%f", that is it already has enclosing double-quotes? (or enclosing single-quotes for that matter) I believe that the current practice is to do what's expected, that is still make sure the filename is correctly quoted.
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