Re: Is gnome fully compliant with freedesktop sepc? Any know issues?

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

If a GNOME module implements published FreeDesktop specifications, such as the desktop entry specification, or the menu specification, it should always be specificiation-compliant. Of course, bugs in implementations are always possible, and if you have issues with any of our implementations, please file bugs in Bugzilla.

Now, on the specific question about the "desktop specification", I cannot find a part of the specification that requires parsing of environment variables. In fact, it says [0]:

    The name or path of the executable program may not contain the equal sign ("="). Arguments are separated by a space.

So, it is required behavior that we do not parse environment variables in Exec lines, and that we abort on any Exec line that has an equals sign.

[0] http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s06.html

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:28 AM, jupiter <jupiter hce gmail com> wrote:

Hi,

A year ago, I developed an application menu system based on
freedesktop spec for Linux desktop system. Unfortunately, it did not
work in gnome, but works perfect on xfce and kde. I was not clear if
gnome is not compliant with freedesktop spec, or if gnome uses its own
desktop spec. Even today, if I switch from thunar to nautilus file
manager, the desktop launcher cannot run due to it could not interpret
environmental variables such as "path=$HOME".

But I could be missing some thing in gnome as well. I am currently
look for if we can run the menu system in gnome and appreciate any
comments and helps.

Thank you.

Kind regards.
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