The Exec line spec isn't a reflection of (everything) what GNOME and
KDE
do, it is a recipe for how to create an Exec line that is supported by
GNOME and KDE and other conforming implementations and it provides
conforming implementations with a limited set of syntactical
constructions that they
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 10:53 -0800, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
1) According to the current spec Exec=foobar.sh %f and Exec=foobar.sh
%f are both valid and equivalent. Unfortunately gnome adds single quotes
around the filepath when using %f effectively making the path
unusable. The bright side is
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 10:41 -0800, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
* It says arguments may be quoted in whole, but both GNOME and KDE
also allow quoting arguments in part. Eg
That's great, the spec doesn't allow these constructions though.
OK, I missed the fact that the reserved character
* It says that backslashes only escape text within double
quotes,
but GNOME and KDE both parse
one\ word
as one word and
\two words\
as two.
Yes, so although these constructions are supported by GNOME and KDE,
the
spec doesn't allow them
