Desktop Entry Specification: Add new ExecArg key
Vladimir Kudrya
vladimir-csp at yandex.ru
Tue Jul 16 07:25:54 UTC 2024
On 16/07/2024 01.21, Manuel Schneider wrote:
> Afaik it's not part of the desktop entry but desktop menu spec. And it
> does not solve the idea of command execution. If it's just a
> convention or draft rather than a standard I probably will not have
> success in convincing terminal authors to use it in their desktop
> entries or to have a command execution CLI at all.
>
I'm not arguing against [X-]ExecArg, I proposed it :)
It just has another function: specifying exec arg in case it is not '-e'
or is not used. Identifying entry as a terminal happens via category,
and it is already a part of the proposed spec.
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