Re: Unifying ~/Desktop

From: Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>
To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
Cc: Simon Hausmann <hausmann kde org>, nautilus-list gnome org, kde-core-devel kde org, xdg-list freedesktop org
Subject: Re: Unifying ~/Desktop
Date: 10 Jun 2002 17:51:29 -0500

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 08:49, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Simon Hausmann <hausmann kde org> writes: 
> > How about using
> > 
> > URL=$HOME or file://$HOME instead?
> >
> 
> That's not in the desktop entry spec, so wouldn't be a valid desktop
> file.

Having a hardcoded path does not sound appropriate.  Look at all the
trouble Jim Gettys mentions when he tries to change his UID.  Likeiwse,
moving your home directory to somewhere else should not involve having
to hand-edit magic files.

  Federico

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