Bug#709304: viewmol: broken menu entry in Gnome (directory $HOME not found)

Drew Parsons dparsons at debian.org
Sat Sep 21 04:18:14 UTC 2013


Curious bug.  There's some discussion at
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2013-January/012644.html
which indicates that environment variables are not addressed in the
freedesktop specification, and therefore handling is
implementation-specific.

They suggest $HOME should be the default working directory anyway, so it
should be safe to remove the line.

I don't have KDE running to confirm.  Petter, on your KDE box, do you
have access to the desktop file
( /usr/share/applications/viewmol.desktop )?  
Could you make the same edit that you that you made with Gnome, deleting
the line with Path?  

It would be nice to confirm that the patch does not upset KDE, though
I'm certain it will be fine.

Drew



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