On Thursday, 2013-12-26, 11:33:13, Jerome Leclanche wrote: > 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").
Ok, thank you for clarifying. However, I don't see how the simple algorith of taking the first word could possibly fail to return 'env'. That is the most simple case: no path, no escaped or quoted whitespace, just a simple alphabetic sequence. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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