Support for localized Exec entries, please

Ronny Standtke ronny.standtke at gmx.net
Wed Apr 18 05:41:46 PDT 2012


Hi

I provide desktop files with localized Exec fields to my users, e.g.:
----------------------------------------------
[Desktop Entry]
Categories=Education;Math;
Exec=firefox http://wiki.geogebra.org/en/
Exec[de]=firefox http://wiki.geogebra.org/de/
Exec[es]=firefox http://wiki.geogebra.org/es/
Exec[fr]=firefox http://wiki.geogebra.org/fr/
Exec[it]=firefox http://wiki.geogebra.org/it/
Exec[pt]=firefox http://wiki.geogebra.org/pt/
Icon=firefox
Name=GeoGebraWiki
Type=Application
----------------------------------------------

This works great when using KDE as desktop environment. Unfortunately, GNOME
seems to be missing support for Exec entry localization as it always 
opens the
English URL even when the user works with a different locale.

I reported this as a bug here:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674204

It turned out that according to the specification, Exec is not supposed 
to be localized. I wonder if the spec could be changed to support 
localized Exec (and URL) entries?

Best regards

Ronny


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