Fwd: [Konsole-devel] [Bug 59820] New: Offer $DESKTOP as a variable which contains the path to the desktop dir

[Waldo Bastian]

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This sounds like a sensible suggestion and might be a good candidate to 
standardize.

If so, could we piggyback it on one of the standards in the making?

Cheers,
Waldo

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Subject: [Konsole-devel]  [Bug 59820] New: Offer $DESKTOP as a variable which 
contains the path to the desktop dir
Date: Sunday 15 June 2003 19:23
From: McHristoph Eckert <mchristoph.eckert at t-online.de>
To: konsole-devel at kde.org

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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59820
           Summary: Offer $DESKTOP as a variable which contains the path to
                    the desktop dir
           Product: konsole
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: konsole-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: mchristoph.eckert at t-online.de


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:          Linux

For distributable Scripts, it would be very nice to always have the path to
 the users desktop in a variable like $DESKTOP; I use some scripts here for
 me which do useful things like mounting ISO-images on the desktop for
 browsing etc. But in my scripts, I always know where my desktop is, but this
 disables me from spreading them via the web to unexperienced users. OK, I
 could try to grep for the desktopdir through $KDEHOME/share/ etc., but this
 is more difficult as when KDE could set $DESKTOP while KDE starts

Other usage: I wrote a script called by hotplug which creates *.desktop-files
 for my cam, stick etc., but everyone who will use it has to change the path
 to the desktop, and I cannot one script for many users of the same machine
 without setting the absolute path for each user.
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