update-desktop-database location

[Christian Westgaard]

On Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:14:03 +0100, Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 15:46 +0100, Christian Westgaard wrote:
>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
>>
>> Does not specify the location of the update-desktop-database script.
>>
>> I currently test for XDG support like this:
>>
>> if update-desktop-database --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
>>
>> But when update-desktop-database is not in $PATH, I'm out of luck.
>>
>> Is there a better test? A specced one?
>>
>
> Well, common sense suggests to look in /usr/bin. Does that really needs
> to be explicit in the spec ? Come on.

Actually on SuSE update-desktop-database is not
located in /usr/bin nor in $PATH.

One might like to say that this means SuSE does
not follow the standard, but one cannot since:
The standard does not state explicitly that update-desktop-database must be in $PATH
(nor that it must be in a specific location, like /usr/bin or $XDG_BIN_DIRS )

The standard also does not provide a explicitly stated
test/check for wether the standard is supported/implemented or not.

Maybe some version checking method should be defined.

-- 
Christian Westgaard <chrisw at opera.com>
Developer and Project Manager
Opera Software ASA