Hello Vincent, Thanks for your comments.
On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 10:56 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > Le lundi 11 avril 2011, à 18:06 +0200, Michael Thayer a écrit : > > Thanks for the answer. Please find a patch against > > desktop-entry-spec-1.1.xml below. I hope that that, together with my > > initial posting, makes my intentions slightly clearer. As I said, I > > would also interested in other approaches to achieve the same thing. > > [...] > > > --- desktop-entry-spec-1.1.xml 2011-04-11 17:50:02.350865289 +0200 > > +++ desktop-entry-spec-1.1.xml.new 2011-04-11 17:57:39.126810018 +0200 > > @@ -429,7 +429,10 @@ > > <entry> > > Icon to display in file manager, menus, etc. If the > > name is an absolute path, the given file will be > > - used. If the name is not an absolute path, the algorithm > > described > > + used. If it starts with "./" it will be treated as a path > > + relative to the directory containing the desktop file and > > + the given file will be used. Otherwise, the algorithm > > + described > > in the <ulink > > url="http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/icon-theme-spec";>Icon > > Theme Specification</ulink> will be used to locate the icon. > > I must admit I don't really see which use case we're trying to cover > here. Can you give a concrete example of where you'd have a bundled > application like this? As mentioned at the start of the thread, my immediate use case is for the installer for the VirtualBox Guest Additions, which are delivered as a virtual CD image which "appears" in a virtual machine when the user selects "Install Guest Additions", and which is normally auto-mounted by the guest at a mount point which can't be cleanly predicted. I would simply like it to look prettier on X11/fd.o-type systems - in the current iteration the user can click on the icon of a shell script to do the installation, but it would be nicer to have a more recognisable icon and the other things that a .desktop file describes very nicely. > FWIW, I'd consider ./ to be relative to the path defined in the Path > key (which could be ./ to tell that it's the base directory of the > .desktop file). Tricky one. On the whole I would say that the initial working directory and the directory where the application files are located don't need to be related, but I can't immediately see how a relocatable application could usefully specify an initial working directory. My initial googling when I was looking for solutions to this suggested that other people might also have uses for it. I don't have any links handy just now, though I could look for some if you like. > I think we'd also want to explicitly mention that ../ is > not supported. Of course, that raises the question as to whether supporting ../ might be useful for someone. But it would seem reasonable not to support it until there is a concrete use case. By the way, I assume you saw http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2011-April/011885.html too. Please let me know if this answer clarified things for you a bit. Regards, Michael -- ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG Michael Thayer Werkstrasse 24 VirtualBox engineering 71384 Weinstadt, Germany mailto:[email protected] Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603 Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V. Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697 Geschäftsführer: Jürgen Kunz, Marcel van de Molen, Alexander van der Ven _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
