Support for localized Exec entries, please

PCMan pcman.tw at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 23:52:49 PDT 2012


An even simpler workaround might be a wrapper script which reads $LANG and
opens different sites accordingly.
I cannot find any contraindications to make Exec key localized, though.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Yury G. Kudryashov <urkud.urkud at gmail.com
> > wrote:
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>> Ronny Standtke wrote:
>>
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > I provide desktop files with localized Exec fields to my users, e.g.:
>> > Exec=firefox http://wiki.geogebra.org/en/
>> Offtopic: why force your users to use firefox? Isn't there a better
>> 'Type'?
>> Why not use xdg-open?
>>
>> Another solution: use forward on the site depending on the browser
>> settings.
>> --
>> Yury G. Kudryashov,
>> mailto: urkud at mccme.ru
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> Maybe a simpler way would be the ability to pass the locale in the exec
> key? As such: Exec=xdg-open http://%l.example.com/
>
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> J. Leclanche
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