Relative paths in .desktop files

David Faure faure at kde.org
Thu Jun 23 02:58:46 PDT 2011


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).

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org).


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