Re: Desktop file and exec path

[Benoit Sigoure]

Quoting Enrico Sardi <address@hidden>:
> I have a desktop file like this:
>
> glpegsolitaire.desktop
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=Peg Solitaire
> Comment=A "Peg Solitaire" for Gnome
> Exec=glpegsolitaire
> Icon=glpegsolitaire.png
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> Categories=GNOME;Game;BoardGame
> StartupNotify=true
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> and I want that if  I give the command  "make install" the path in 
> the Exec field will be replaced by the value of the $(datadir)  
> variable. Is this possible?
>
> Many thanks for the help!
>
> Enrico

Although two ways of solving this issue have been proposed already, there is
also another way out: using an AC_CONFIG_FILES.

glpegsolitaire.desktop.in
------------------------------------------------------------------
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Peg Solitaire
Comment=A "Peg Solitaire" for Gnome
address@hidden@
Icon=glpegsolitaire.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Game;BoardGame
StartupNotify=true
------------------------------------------------------------------

In your configure.ac:
AC_CONFIG_FILES([path/to/glpegsolitaire.desktop])

That's it.
http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/html_node/Configuration-Files.html

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