E.g. this successfully starts xeyes when you click on it.

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=test.txt
Type=Application
Exec=xeyes
Name[en_US]=test.txt


On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Evan Martin<e...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Do we need a full path?  I think desktop files know to search $PATH
> for executables.
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Paweł Hajdan Jr.<phajdan...@chromium.org> 
> wrote:
>> There is one problem with creating desktop shortcuts on Linux: getting
>> correct path to the launcher script.
>> Gears find Firefox launcher using
>> "which": http://code.google.com/p/gears/source/browse/trunk/gears/desktop/desktop_linux.cc
>> Currently Chromium needs the launcher for correct library path to load
>> custom ffmpeg libraries.
>> The launcher may be at different locations on different distros.
>> Do you have ideas what to do? I was thinking about patching some file for
>> each distro with the correct path... but it's not the most elegant solution.
>> >>
>>
>

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