.desktop files with relative icons ?

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at rasterman.com
Mon Aug 28 16:13:26 PDT 2006


On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:45:00 -0700 "Bastian, Waldo" <waldo.bastian at intel.com>
babbled:

> Prefix with ./ sounds good:
> 
> * If it starts with "/" it's an absolute path
> * If it starts with "./" is's a relative path
> * Everything else is a themed icon name

you forgot ../

:)

> Waldo Bastian
> Linux Client Architect - Client Linux Foundation Technology
> Channel Platform Solutions Group
> Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/opensource
> OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Benedikt Meurer [mailto:benny at xfce.org]
> >Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 9:41 AM
> >To: Bastian, Waldo
> >Cc: Rémi; xdg at lists.freedesktop.org
> >Subject: Re: .desktop files with relative icons ?
> >
> >Bastian, Waldo wrote:
> >> If implementations other than KDE have implement/intent to implement
> >> this as well it can be added to the Desktop Entry Spec, yes.
> >
> >That shouldn't be hard to implement. But there should be some agreement
> >on how to identify relative paths. Prefix with "./"? Scan for "/"?
> >
> >Benedikt
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