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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