Bug 52642 - kontrol-panel does not handle Exec field in .desktop file
Summary: kontrol-panel does not handle Exec field in .desktop file
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: kdeadmin
Version: roswell
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-08-27 16:15 UTC by Jonathan Blandford
Modified: 2013-04-02 04:15 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2001-08-27 20:49:39 UTC
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Description Jonathan Blandford 2001-08-27 16:15:53 UTC 
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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

Additional info:
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-08-28 13:51:03 UTC 
Fixed in 2.2-6
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