[ubuntu-us-nm] variable arguments - solved

Leif Gregory ldgregory69 at gmail.com
Tue May 20 22:10:27 BST 2008


On Tue, 20 May 2008 10:39:04 -0600
Leif Gregory <ldgregory at gmail.com> wrote:

> In configuring various menu items and default programs to open when
> certain things are double-clicked I've run across a number of
> different variable arguments (maybe not the right terms), stuff like
> %m, %u, %l etc.

Nevermind. Got the answer from another list. If anyone is interested.

It's part of the Desktop Entry Specification, used in Gnome and KDE
(possibly others). 

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.4.html


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