[Bug 167502] .desktop file not honoring PATH environment variable

[Juan Ignacio Saitua]

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------- Additional Comments From jisaitua yahoo com  2008-07-31 22:47 -------
Found where the problem is. It's in the KStandardDirs::findExe() function. From line 937 (http://api.kde.org/3.5-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/kstandarddirs_8cpp-source.html#l00937)

QString p = QString("%1/%2").arg(kfsstnd_defaultbindir()).arg(real_appname);

you can see that it uses function kfsstnd_defaultbindir() to get the absolute path to the application. KStandardDirs::kfsstnd_defaultbindir() returns __KDE_BINDIR and, from the ubuntu packages, the default compiled value for __KDE_BINDIR is /usr/bin. So, it doesn't matter what you set in your PATH environment variable, but it always will execute /usr/bin/myapp.

IMHO, I think that KStandardDirs::findExe() should use KStandardDirs::kfsstnd_defaultbindir() as the last option to find the absolute path to the application (and not as the second one, as is coded right now).

Any comments? Thanks...