Bug 106449

Summary: resolving symlinks in binary_to_desktop_file can cause issues.
Product: Portland Reporter: Simon Lees (SUSE) <sflees>
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 1.1.0   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Description Simon Lees (SUSE) 2018-05-09 06:51:25 UTC 
this is a tough one as it maybe broken either way, but binary_to_desktop_file currently follows symlinks of the binary file passed in, which in the case of firefox on openSUSE ends up pointing to /usr/lib64/firefox.sh, which in turn leads to it searching for "firefox.sh" in the desktop files which is not found. 

The line in question is 
binary="`readlink -f "$binary"`"

maybe this is a bug in firefox's desktop file (exec'ing a symlink rather then the binary) but either way I thought i'd look for a second opinion on which is more right.
Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-16 13:39:59 UTC 
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