On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Kevin Krammer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 2013-12-26, 10:56:11, Jerome Leclanche wrote: >> I'd really like to be able to get the binary name from desktop files >> (eg a way to "start without any argument"). Current implementations >> rely on getting the first word of the Exec key OR replace %f etc by >> nothing, but that fails for things such as these: >> >> Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/adys/.local/share/wineprefixes/default" >> wine start /ProgIDOpen chm.file %f > > What do you mean when you say "fails"? > That the command won't launch if %f is replaced by nothing or that taking the > first string fails to see that the launched program is /usr/bin/env?
Sorry, I meant the usual way of getting the binary name (which in this case would be "env"). > >> 1. Add an Environment key to desktop files, like systemd's service >> files. This would be neat and cleaner for such programs. That exec key >> would trip up launchers that parse the command line in addition to the >> name. Annoying! But it doesn't really fix my issue. >> >> 2. Potential solution #1: Add an ExecNoArgs (or similarly named) key. >> If not found, it would be assumed to be the same as the Exec key with >> %f/%F/%u/%U replaced by nothing. Clean, backwards-compatible, easy to >> implement. >> >> 3. Potential solution #2: Add a Binary key and add a %b token for the >> Exec key so that you can do something like >> Binary=/usr/bin/foo >> Exec=%b --files=%F >> >> Not backwards compatible but more potential. On the other hand, this >> could be inappropriately used for things such as wine (where Binary >> would be /usr/bin/wine but should never be executed without args)... > > Not backward compatible is a no-go IMHO. It would take years before software > vendors could use the new format. Agreed. > > Cheers, > Kevin > -- > Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer > KDE user support, developer mentoring > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
