requiring .desktop files to be executable ?

[David Faure]

On Friday 20 February 2009, R.F. Pels wrote:
> On Thu 19 February 2009 23.47.39 Trever Fischer wrote:
> 
> > ...and if they don't have kfmclient installed?
> 
> I think then they have a problem because AFAICS xdg-open uses kfmclient 
> to launch programs... 

But only if it's installed. So using xdg-open is certainly better (also for the
case where those desktop files are used in other desktop environments).

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