From kde-devel  Wed May 05 14:07:49 1999
From: Bavo De Ridder <bavo () ace ! ulyssis ! student ! kuleuven ! ac ! be>
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 14:07:49 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: unknown .kdelnk field
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92591319703278

On Wed, 05 May 1999, Stefan Taferner wrote:
>On Wed, 05 May 1999, David Faure wrote:
>[...]
>> > > > I don't think so.  Makes sense to me.  However, Application is still a
>> > > > misleading name.  Let's call it AppBinary?
>> > > 
>> > > To me binary looks like 0 and 1 .... but you're the native speaker, not me ;)
>> > > 
>> > > Ok for AppBinary then ;)
>> > 
>> > How about "Exec" or "Execute" ?
>> > AppBinary is still not 100% clear to me.
>> 
>> No, Exec already exists and contains the command line.
>> Here we don't want the arguments. We just want the name of the application
>> "binary" (or shell!) .... ExecutablePattern ? ;) hmm...
>
>AppName
>AppFileName

Or 

AppBinary -> contains only the binaryname (e.g. "kedit")
AppParam -> contains only the parameters (e.g. "-geometry 800x600")

The string to pass to kfm or a shell should than be constructed as follows:

AppBinary + " " + AppParam


BDR

>
>--Stefan