relative paths in Exec= in .desktop and .service files

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 08 September 2014 13:23:05 Simon McVittie wrote:
> * it's relative to the directory containing the executable that is
>   interpreting the file, e.g. dbus-daemon[.exe], i.e. normally /usr/bin
> 
> * it's relative to the getcwd() of the process that is interpreting
>   the file, i.e. normally / or $HOME
> 
> * it's relative to the directory containing the file itself,
>   i.e. normally /usr/share/applications

The first two options might be valid for D-Bus and dbus-daemon, but they can't 
be for the desktop file specification since there are multiple processes 
processing them, which means a wide variety of CWD and of installation 
prefixes. Desktop files should be predictable, so I'd suggest we go for the 
third option: relative to the file itself.

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