First work on .desktop file brouhaha [PATCH]

[Alex Merry]

On Thursday 19 February 2009 06:14:01 John Tapsell wrote:
> 2009/2/19 Michael Pyne <mpyne at purinchu.net>:
> > * Is the path to the file relative? If so permit it for now as it will be
> > searched for later (this is my assumption at least, I have not gone
> > through the code paths to verify).
>
> I don't understand this.  Why not just turn relative paths into
> absolute paths and then check them in the same way?

Because that's more work.  The assumption Michael has made (which I think is 
correct) is that relative paths are always relative to a standard directory.  
So if you request "foo.desktop" or "bar/foo.desktop", it _won't_ use your 
current working directory, but instead will look for the file in the standard 
locations.

Alex


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