IDEs are a good example of binaries that take their arguments differently based on the file type, or whether there is a file at all (eg. an ide normally expects a project file, but some will have a command line switch to open files in a new project. That's an excellent example of a type of intent that takes file arguments: "Open a code file in a new development project". J. Leclanche
On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpie...@mecheye.net> wrote: > It seems the use case is "I want to launch an app whose Exec line takes > filenames or URIs but don't want to pass it any arguments". In the case of > the Wine example, it's not the "env" line that's the problem, it's that the > "/ProgIDOpen" won't work unless there are more files after it. I'd perhaps > argue that you shouldn't build your apps like that, and apps have been built > this way for 12 years without major troubles, and DBus activation is right > around the corner, but maybe it's worth speccing in a "BareExec" key. > > Keep in mind, this is very, very different from "get the binary name". > > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 5:39 PM, Thiago Macieira <thi...@kde.org> wrote: >> >> On quinta-feira, 26 de dezembro de 2013 21:15:49, Jerome Leclanche wrote: >> > For the exact same reason menus and any kind of application runners >> > do. That is to say, not that much. It's needed for the rarer case >> > where the application accepts different parameters/different command >> > line depending on whether it has input args or not. >> > What bothers me here is that the concensus seems to be "Nobody has >> > needed it so far", but this is clearly false; there just seems to be >> > pressure not to need it, and call applications needing it "a bug". >> >> Jerome, the problem is that no one here understands why you need to know >> the >> binary name. >> >> Forget the environment. That was a side-effect of your using the wine file >> as an >> example. Maybe we need to add EnvironmentNNN entries to set environment >> variables before launching an executable. But that's a *separate* >> discussion. >> >> -- >> Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org >> Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center >> PGP/GPG: 0x6EF45358; fingerprint: >> E067 918B B660 DBD1 105C 966C 33F5 F005 6EF4 5358 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> xdg mailing list >> xdg@lists.freedesktop.org >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg >> > > > > -- > Jasper > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > xdg@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
