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John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:

> On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 09:45:22PM -0400, Thompson, David wrote:
>      On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 9:23 PM, Alex ter Weele
>      <alex.ter.weele@gmail.com> wrote:
>      > I don't believe there is a standard, but different packages do it
>      > different ways. Under my patch, guile-wm will regenerate its .desk=
top as
>      > part of the build process, so its Exec=3D should be kept up-to-dat=
e.
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>      We should always refer to the absolute path to binaries so that we
>      don't rely on $PATH, which would be nondeterministic.
>=20=20=20=20=20=20
>
> In that case, below is a (non-exhaustive) list of .desktop files from
> various packages which do it "wrong".    Is there not some way we can
> automatically flag such cases at build time?

Maybe we could have a =E2=80=98patch-desktop-files=E2=80=99 phase that auto=
matically
expands relative file names in .desktop files?

Ludo=E2=80=99.