On 03/17/10 12:54, Leonardo Luiz Padovani da Mata wrote:
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Auke Kok<[email protected]> wrote:
On 03/09/10 09:55, Luis Tiago C Eterovick wrote:
Hello,
I'd like to know how are defined the folders that contains .desktop files
for the system to read. I want to create a directory with higher priority
than /usr/share/applications, but unlike other distros (and according to
freedesktop standards), it didn't apply by just setting the environment
variable XDG_DATA_DIRS. Is there any other way to do that?
there's a known bug in uxlaunch (well, it's a design issue really) where it
does not do any environment setup at all when it starts the users X session:
subsequently, the panel parts run without any XDG_DATA_DIRS set in their
environments.
We fixed this recently in git, but this change will likely not go out to
older releases. You can verify this by starting a terminal WITHOUT making it
"a login shell" and looking at your environment - it will likely not have
XDG_DATA_DIRS set. You can also look at /var/log/uxlaunch.log.
apart from this fix, I don't know whether the panel does the right thing at
this time, which would be a new bug.
To test this feature, i've tried to mannually set the variable inside
the options.c file, using
setenv("XDG_DATA_DIRS","/usr/share/my_desktops",1);
I was abble to see the change inside the /var/log/uxlaunch.log file,
but the .desktop files are still comming from the default path.
Can you point me where in the code this was fixed?
I think the problem in this case is that uxlaunch itself is probably not
parsing XDG_DATA_DIRS at all when starting up .desktop files, and that
would be a new bug. That should be visible in desktop.c without much problem
Auke
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