Question on desktop file exec lines

[Jerome Leclanche]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:23 AM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday 23 December 2013 09:38:02 Jerome Leclanche wrote:
>> See: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s06.html
>>
>> I think I already know the answer to both but I'd like to double-check.
>>
>> 1) When dealing with desktop files that have %u or %U in the name, if
>> the argument is a relative file path, the file path should be made
>> absolute with getcwd(), correct?
>
> Yes, this is the best approach, since the app might start in a different
> working directory and therefore not find the file.
>
> Note that the working directory can be specified in the .desktop file, or can
> be up to the application's startup code - or the way it's started
> (cf. kdeinit and other fork-and-exec launchers).
>
>> 2) When dealing with %f or %F, the file path should *not* be expanded,
>> correct?
>
> You mean in case it's relative? The same reasoning applies IMHO.
>
> My code (i.e. KDE) never sends relative paths to the program started via a
> desktop file.
>

I thought about this a little longer and I changed my code to match yours.
This needs to be clarified in the spec. Anyone up for a patch?

J. Leclanche

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