On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 10:39 -0400, Kris Warkentin wrote: > The freedesktop spec speaks of various escapes and special characters > within .desktop files but it doesn't explicitly seem to talk about shell > expansion. I've observed that moblin-panel-applications doesn't seem to > expand them. For example, if you have "Exec=my_file_man $HOME", > my_file_man is run with the literal argument $HOME. > > I suspect that moblin-panel-applications is doing the correct thing but > I thought someone here might have better knowledge of the spec.
If shell expansion isn't in the spec, then it isn't in the spec. :) So yes, not expanding $HOME is correct. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: [email protected] jabber: [email protected] www: http://burtonini.com _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: http://lists.moblin.org/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
