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

[jupiter <jupiter hce gmail com>]

> Using environment variable is not part of the specification. It is an
> extension done by KDE.

Does that mean there is no chance to set Path to user home directory
in gnome, which is a very common setup?

How is the latest version GNOME 3.4 Release? Any chance to set up Path
to user home directory?

Thank you.

Kind regards.


On 1/18/13, Frederic Crozat <fred crozat net> wrote:
> 2013/1/18 jupiter <jupiter hce gmail com>:
>>>  in general, if you want to set environmental variables, you should env
>>> command.
>>
>> I am not to set environment variable, but to use environment variable
>> in desktop entry file. Or did you mean you can set up env command in
>> desktop entry file?
>>
>>> Can you show full Exec line you used?
>>
>> I have following variable in desktop entry file, it works in KDE and
>> Thunar, but failed in Nautilus.
>>
>> Path=$HOME
>>
>> The error was "Failed to change directory $HOME (No such file or
>> directory).
>>
>> I have seen some examples to use $HOME in desktop entry file such as
>> following link. Was I wrong that $HOME can never be used in desktop
>> entry file?
>
> Using environment variable is not part of the specification. It is an
> extension done by KDE.
>
> --
> Frederic Crozat
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