On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Vincent Untz <[email protected]> wrote:
> Le vendredi 18 janvier 2013, à 22:48 +1100, jupiter a écrit : > > > Can you give more details on the issues you hit? > > > > I was not able to list the application menu on desktop menu in gnome, > > but works on KDE and xfce. > > You mean, by right-clicking on the desktop (we don't have that in > GNOME)? Or something else? > > I can tell you that GNOME does support the menu spec, for sure. > > > The current issue is that adding an environment variable such as $HOME > > in desktop entry file as following example works with KDE file manager > > and Thunar when to click a desktop launcher (copy an application menu > > icon to the desktop), but does not work with nautilus, the error was > > "Failed to change directory $HOME (No such file or directory)" > > > > Path=$HOME > > There's no support for environment variables in the desktop entry spec, > and therefore there's no guarantee that this will work on all > implementations. > We've hit the same issue at Razor a few times. Assuming we can get GNOME to implement envvar support in desktop files, would you be opposed to adding it to the spec? I really don't think it's good that currently half of the implementations can treat the same PATH differently. > > Cheers, > > Vincent > > -- > Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg >
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