[Fwd: Fwd: [Konsole-devel] [Bug 59820] New: Offer $DESKTOP as a variable which contains the path to the desktop dir]

[Darryl Rees <rees netnam vn>]

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Subject: 	Fwd: [Konsole-devel] [Bug 59820] New: Offer $DESKTOP as a 
variable which contains the path to the desktop dir
Date: 	Sun, 15 Jun 2003 23:27:03 +0200
From: 	Waldo Bastian <bastian kde org>
To: 	xdg-list freedesktop org



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This sounds like a sensible suggestion and might be a good candidate to 
standardize.

If so, could we piggyback it on one of the standards in the making?

Cheers,
Waldo

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Subject: [Konsole-devel]  [Bug 59820] New: Offer $DESKTOP as a variable which 
contains the path to the desktop dir
Date: Sunday 15 June 2003 19:23
From: McHristoph Eckert <mchristoph eckert t-online de>
To: konsole-devel kde org

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http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59820
          Summary: Offer $DESKTOP as a variable which contains the path to
                   the desktop dir
          Product: konsole
          Version: unspecified
         Platform: SuSE RPMs
       OS/Version: Linux
           Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Severity: wishlist
         Priority: NOR
        Component: general
       AssignedTo: konsole-devel kde org
       ReportedBy: mchristoph eckert t-online de


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:          Linux

For distributable Scripts, it would be very nice to always have the path to
the users desktop in a variable like $DESKTOP; I use some scripts here for
me which do useful things like mounting ISO-images on the desktop for
browsing etc. But in my scripts, I always know where my desktop is, but this
disables me from spreading them via the web to unexperienced users. OK, I
could try to grep for the desktopdir through $KDEHOME/share/ etc., but this
is more difficult as when KDE could set $DESKTOP while KDE starts

Other usage: I wrote a script called by hotplug which creates *.desktop-files
for my cam, stick etc., but everyone who will use it has to change the path
to the desktop, and I cannot one script for many users of the same machine
without setting the absolute path for each user.
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