Bug 52642 – kontrol-panel does not handle Exec field in .desktop file

Bug 52642 - kontrol-panel does not handle Exec field in .desktop file

Summary:	kontrol-panel does not handle Exec field in .desktop file

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Public Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kdeadmin (Show other bugs)
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Version:	roswell
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2001-08-27 12:15 EDT by Jonathan Blandford
Modified:	2013-04-02 00:15 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2001-08-27 16:49:39 EDT
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Description Jonathan Blandford 2001-08-27 12:15:53 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010809

Description of problem:
kontrol-panel doesn't check the users path (or even commonly checked
locations like /usr/bin etc.) for executables, and instead assumes that
there is an absolute path.  This means that apps using it must hardcode
their path into the desktop file, which is both not part of the spec, and a
bit of a pain in the non-controlled sense.  As a result, hwbrowser does not
work in the kontrol-panel

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Run a program like hwbrowser

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Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-28 09:51:03 EDT

Fixed in 2.2-6

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