Bug 98643

Summary:	support for relative paths in desktop files
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Dik Takken <kde>
Component:	kdecore	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adriano.lols
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Dik Takken 2005-02-05 21:43:46 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

It is currently not possible to reference paths and filenames relative to the path where the desktop file itself is located.

This is very useful when developing scripts that generate datafiles and desktop files that will do something with those datafiles. When the user moves the directory that contains both the datafiles and the desktop files, the desktop files will stop working, because the absolute location of the datafiles have been hardcoded into them.

Maybe we could support setting the 'Working Directory' to the location of the desktop file by specifying '.' as the Working Directory.

Comment 1 Adriano Moura 2010-07-16 09:34:23 UTC

This bug is still present in KDE 4.5

It also does not honors variables for icons path.

Icons=$foo/bar.png does not work, but,
Exec=$foo/bar.bin does work!

Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-14 16:18:50 UTC

Hi,

kdelibs (version 4 and earlier) is no longer maintained since a few years.

KDE Frameworks 5 or 6 might already have implemented this wish.

If not, please re-open against the matching framework if feasible or against the application that shows the issue.

We then can still dispatch it to the right Bugzilla product or component.

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann