Bug 59820

Summary:	Offer $DESKTOP as a variable which contains the path to the desktop dir
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	Christoph Eckert <ce>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Bugs <konsole-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Christoph Eckert 2003-06-15 19:23:08 UTC

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.

Comment 1 Kurt Hindenburg 2005-01-29 18:02:45 UTC

This is not related to konsole.  Ask on the kde-devel mailing list or google for it.