Bug 805937 - XFce desktop not recognise $HOME in .desktop entries
Summary: XFce desktop not recognise $HOME in .desktop entries
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xfdesktop
Version: 16
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
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Assignee: Kevin Fenzi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-03-22 14:09 UTC by Frantisek Hanzlik
Modified: 2013-02-14 01:40 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-02-14 01:40:42 UTC
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Description Frantisek Hanzlik 2012-03-22 14:09:40 UTC
Description of problem:
When using $HOME (or "~") words in .desktop entries ("Path=", "Exec=", "Icon=",.. etc), this sentence isn't recognised, although should be, according to freedesktop.org convenciens.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xfdesktop-4.8.3-1.fc16.i686

How reproducible:
allways

Additional info:
Impossibility of use this standard variables do things tedious and unportable among users.

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2012-03-22 16:45:53 UTC
Would you be willing to file this upstream at bugzilla.xfce.org? Or would you like me to?

Where do you see in the desktop spec that $HOME and/or ~ should be honored?

Comment 2 Frantisek Hanzlik 2012-03-22 23:08:22 UTC
Kevin, You catch me now. I was filling this bug after I had to copy one .desktop file to multiple users, and there was path in "Exec=" item which was referenced to user's home directory - and I was forced manually fill home directory path for every user of that .desktop file. And I lightly, at first click, found example which use "$HOME" for these purposes in article "Anatomy of a .desktop File" at
http://linuxcritic.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/anatomy-of-a-desktop-file/

Not a bit occurred to me thought it isn't possible do something of that kind.
But (unspecified date and titled as "draft") specification at
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
nowhere mentioned construct as "~" or "$HOME". Thus this my bugreport maybe probably only my wish :). Sorry for noise.

Comment 3 Kevin Fenzi 2012-03-23 03:08:56 UTC
Well, I can see it easily being a wishlist item. It would be handy. ;)

Would you be willing to file this upstream at bugzilla.xfce.org ? 
Or would you prefer I do so?

Comment 4 Frantisek Hanzlik 2012-03-23 07:44:48 UTC
I will be happy when You can do it. Because 0) I would have to register there and You are perhaps already, 1) mainly, my english is too bad for such serious thing, 3) Your name is known in Linux/Redhat world and request from You will have bigger strength.
I can imagine two ways for this task - one, more general, is ability of use environment variables expansion ($HOME/$LANG/$whatever); other is use of now existing construct "%" + character where eg. %h will be substituted by user's homedir path... and (maybe) %e{$envvar} by environment variable value ;)
Thanks for Your help, Kevin!

Comment 5 Kevin Fenzi 2012-03-26 00:53:24 UTC
Filed upstream for comment: 

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8599

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