On Thursday 23 June 2011, Michael Thayer wrote: > On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 11:58 +0200, David Faure wrote: > > On Monday 18 April 2011, Vincent Untz wrote: > > > 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). > > > > From a KDE point of view: I support these additions to the desktop entry > > spec and I volunteer to implement them in KDE. > > > > (In fact I just implemented support for Exec=./foo here, but that's > > useless by itself if it requires on a Path that has to be absolute, so > > the next step is to implement Path=. if we all agree on that syntax). > > Great. Would you like me to post an updated patch against the spec, as > in e.g. > [ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2011-April/011887.html ], or
Ah I seem to have missed some emails in this thread, thanks for the pointers. I am definitely NOT in favour of Type=ApplicationRelative, this would require many more adaptations to the code in many places, and it moves a rather special case to a very proeminent place -- should we have Type=ApplicationWithPath when Path is set, and Type=ApplicationWithTerminal when a terminal should show up? Sorry for the reasoning by the absurd or whatever that's called -- my point is that there's a combinatorial issue in putting too much information into Type. This discussion is about a small change in the file describing an application, let's keep Type=Application. > does [ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2011-April/011882.html > ] look good to you? It says that "./" is relative to the location of the .desktop file. I can see the idea behind it, but then what happens when Path is set? >From an implementation point of view it's easier to chdir(Path) and then execute ./foo, but I can see how from a user point of view the idea is maybe more to say "resolve to a full path from the directory containing the .desktop file, then chdir(Path), then run the executable with a full path"? I'm talking about a case like /home/dfaure/foo.desktop saying: Exec=./foo Path=/tmp Should this do (cd /tmp ; ./foo) or (cd /tmp ; /home/dfaure/foo) ? I'm guessing the latter is more useful, but maybe less expected. (More useful because the first one can be done with Exec=/tmp/foo, since in that case we know about /tmp as an absolute path anyway). -- David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org). _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
