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-rw-r--r--desktop-entry/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml8
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/desktop-entry/ChangeLog b/desktop-entry/ChangeLog
index b38d940..4b632ce 100644
--- a/desktop-entry/ChangeLog
+++ b/desktop-entry/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
2007-04-28 Vincent Untz <vuntz@gnome.org>
+ * desktop-entry-spec.xml: clarify description for the TryExec key.
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-March/009556.html
+
+2007-04-28 Vincent Untz <vuntz@gnome.org>
+
* desktop-entry-spec.xml: change "the $PATH" to "the $PATH environment
variable".
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2007-March/009552.html
diff --git a/desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml b/desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml
index 756419e..0dbb940 100644
--- a/desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml
+++ b/desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml
@@ -469,9 +469,11 @@
<row>
<entry id="key-tryexec"><varname>TryExec</varname></entry>
<entry>
- File name of a binary on disk used to determine if the
- program is actually installed. If not, entry may not
- show in menus, etc.
+ Path to an executable file on disk used to determine if the program
+ is actually installed. If the path is not an absolute path, the file
+ is looked up in the $PATH environment variable. If the file is not
+ present or if it is not executable, the entry may be ignored (not be
+ used in menus, for example).
</entry>
<entry>string</entry>
<entry>NO</entry>