Desktop Entry Specification: Add new ExecArg key

[Manuel Schneider]

I am not arguing against it either. I just want it to happen. Preferably soon.

My personal motivation is my app Albert launcher. Currently I need the fragile heuristics mentioned before and an in app configuration of the user terminal to be used for several actions. This is terribly time consuming and impossible to get right. If we had the ExecArg I could at least guarantee the functionality of this feature and delegate responsibility to desktop entry authors in case of failures.

Ofc I'd prefer your proposal to be merged, because then I could even delegate the choice of the terminal to the system. But compared to this "convenience" I'd be happy to have it "working at all". But given the fact that your proposal lingers around for 5 years I thought we could probably speed it up by going step by step. IIUC your proposal is a dedicated standard which relies on changes to the desktop entry spec. Having this single key added to the desktop spec in near future seems to be more realistic. It is a requirement for your proposal anyway, so we are in the same boat, aren't we?

Since I am not familiar with the XDG realm I struggle to find out where to start a discussion to get things off the ground. You sent your PR long time ago. Has there been a discussion or such anywhere?





> Am 16.07.2024 um 09:25 schrieb Vladimir Kudrya <vladimir-csp at yandex.ru>:
> 
> 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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