Aw: Re: New panel in trunk

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Brian J. Tarricone schreef:
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> On 10/14/2005 2:53 PM, Don Christensen wrote:
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>>Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
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>>>Fabian Nowak schreef:
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>>>>launcher: ~ is not evaluated, this means executing ~/bin/someappstarter
>>>>does not work, ~ has to be replaced manually.
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>>>Yeah. The panel is not a shell. If we want this, it is probably easier 
>>>to execute everything with /bin/sh.
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>>It's also the easiest way to introduce security holes.  You would be
>>better off just handling a few key things like maybe "~" and ENV var
>>expansion (without backtick evaluation, of course).  You might be
>>able to snarf code from bash or somewhere--the beauty of open source,
>>right?
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> Or just use xfce_expand_variables():
> http://www.xfce.org/documentation/api-4.2/libxfce4util/libxfce4util-Miscellaneous-Utilities.html#xfce-expand-variables
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I completely forgot about that! Very nice. Fabian, could you try now?