Binary name in the desktop file

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 1:04 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> On quinta-feira, 26 de dezembro de 2013 12:55:28, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Thiago Macieira <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
>> > On quinta-feira, 26 de dezembro de 2013 10:56:11, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
>> >> I'd really like to be able to get the binary name from desktop files
>> >> (eg a way to "start without any argument").
>> >
>> > Why?
>>
>> I need it for intents, for one. Secondly, what I said above: Runners
>> need it in order not to fail for some programs. And third, it seems
>> absurd that it's not something possible to date.
>
> The third one is the easiest to explain: no one has needed it.
>
> I don't know what intents or runners are and why they need the binary name so
> that they won't fail. Why is the binary name important? Aren't any of the
> other arguments important too? Please describe what you need to accomplish,
> not the solution that you think will get you there.
>
> "Intents" reminds me of Android, which doesn't use XDG so it's not relevant.
> "Runners" reminds me of KRunner plugins (they're called "runners") which are
> found by .desktop files, but they are plugins so they have no Exec= line.
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Runners are programs like krunner, lxqt-runner and such. As for
intents, they're something I've been working on for a while (and
repeatedly sent RFCs to this mailing list about), and they need to be
able to start a program without any specific argument.

J. Leclanche