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
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