On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: > On quinta-feira, 26 de dezembro de 2013 12:55:28, Jerome Leclanche wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Thiago Macieira <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On quinta-feira, 26 de dezembro de 2013 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"). >> > >> > Why? >> >> I need it for intents, for one. Secondly, what I said above: Runners >> need it in order not to fail for some programs. And third, it seems >> absurd that it's not something possible to date. > > The third one is the easiest to explain: no one has needed it. > > I don't know what intents or runners are and why they need the binary name so > that they won't fail. Why is the binary name important? Aren't any of the > other arguments important too? Please describe what you need to accomplish, > not the solution that you think will get you there. > > "Intents" reminds me of Android, which doesn't use XDG so it's not relevant. > "Runners" reminds me of KRunner plugins (they're called "runners") which are > found by .desktop files, but they are plugins so they have no Exec= line. > -- > Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org > Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center > PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: > E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg >
Runners are programs like krunner, lxqt-runner and such. As for intents, they're something I've been working on for a while (and repeatedly sent RFCs to this mailing list about), and they need to be able to start a program without any specific argument. J. Leclanche _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
