Binary name in the desktop file

[Dominique Michel]

Le Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:56:57 +0000,
Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> a écrit :

> My point is, "env" is not what you should get for this. Wine is just
> using env as a "hacky" way to give wine the WINEPREFIX variable.
> 
> 
> J. Leclanche

So, this is a wine bug, as their non standard Wine category which
is not prefixed by X- and necessitate an extra xdg menu infrastructure.

Dominique

> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org>
> wrote:
> > On Thursday, 2013-12-26, 11:33:13, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org>
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Thursday, 2013-12-26, 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"). Current
> >> >> implementations rely on getting the first word of the Exec key
> >> >> OR replace %f etc by nothing, but that fails for things such as
> >> >> these:
> >> >>
> >> >> Exec=env
> >> >> WINEPREFIX="/home/adys/.local/share/wineprefixes/default" wine
> >> >> start /ProgIDOpen chm.file %f
> >> >
> >> > What do you mean when you say "fails"?
> >> > That the command won't launch if %f is replaced by nothing or
> >> > that taking the first string fails to see that the launched
> >> > program is /usr/bin/env?
> >> Sorry, I meant the usual way of getting the binary name (which in
> >> this case would be "env").
> >
> > Ok, thank you for clarifying.
> > However, I don't see how the simple algorith of taking the first
> > word could possibly fail to return 'env'.
> > That is the most simple case: no path, no escaped or quoted
> > whitespace, just a simple alphabetic sequence.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
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> > Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
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