As per the comment on bug 343896 I am forwarding this to this list for discussion. To summarize the bug, libgnome's gnome-open will open a .desktop file with a text editor, causing several applications (such as deskbar-applet) to open .desktop files, when it is more likely that the user was expecting the command associated with the .desktop file to be run. Since this is a somewhat major behavior change to a standing api, what are peoples thoughts on such a change, would it be desired, or more of a pain then its worth? Personally, I think that we should offer an API to execute .desktop file commands somewhere in the libgnome api, but maybe gnome-open isn't the place to do it? Please, all thoughts and commends welcome. Cheers, Kevin Kubasik Bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343896
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