Re: [PATCH] Adding .xsession to guile-wm

[Ludovic Courtès]

John Darrington <address@hidden> 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
>      <address@hidden> wrote:
>      > I don't believe there is a standard, but different packages do it
>      > different ways. Under my patch, guile-wm will regenerate its .desktop 
> as
>      > part of the build process, so its Exec= should be kept up-to-date.
>      
>      We should always refer to the absolute path to binaries so that we
>      don't rely on $PATH, which would be nondeterministic.
>      
>
> 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 ‘patch-desktop-files’ phase that automatically
expands relative file names in .desktop files?

Ludo’.