relative paths in Exec= in .desktop and .service files
Thiago Macieira
thiago at kde.org
Mon Sep 8 15:55:29 PDT 2014
On Monday 08 September 2014 10:50:49 Jon Watte wrote:
> My proposal is that a relative entry should be specified to "fail to
> execute."
> Unless there is a really, really good use case (other than "users sometimes
> mistakenly write this") then there's no reason to allow any kind of
> ambiguity.
Simon's email explained the use-case: relocatable installations, especially on
Windows.
--
Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint:
E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358
More information about the xdg
mailing list