[vlc-devel] [PATCH] (minor) remove absolute linux path

[okgomdjgbmoij]

On 11/18/18 4:34 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le sunnuntaina 18. marraskuuta 2018, 16.09.05 EET okgomdjgbmoij a écrit :
>> remove absolute linux path
>>
>> This simply removes the absolute linux path from the vlc.desktop file.
>> All other applications don't use an absolute path. It's actually useful,
>> to not have a hardcoded path.
> 
> Is it?
> 

I don't know if it's really all, but i tried a bit and found just one, 
and that one because its binary was not in $PATH.
Examples of apps that don't have an absolute path, firefox, libreoffice, 
thunderbird, mpv, chromium, dosbox, transmission.... and many other less 
popular ones.

There's probably a standard somewhere...

Yes it's useful, you can write a wrapper script that masks the binary...
Probably an other reason they do this, is that users can copy these 
files. Then if the path changes their menus continue working.