Re: Absolute paths to applications in .desktop files

["Alexander Jones" <alex weej com>]

2008/7/23 Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>:
> Actually, the panel does not copy them and directly use the file. That's
> fine, until the user starts modifying it, in which case we have no
> choice and we have to "fork" the file.
>
> Nautilus doesn't do that, though.

I didn't realise that.

I can see though, that when I edit the menu and simply make an item
visible, it forks the Desktop Entry and just changes the hidden field
in ~/.local/share/applications