Re: Can my WINE program write to files in /usr directory?

[John Found]

Thanks. Your hint is really helpful. I will have to read more. :)

Thanks again.

On Tue, 13 May 2014 13:20:22 -0500
Andrew Eikum  wrote:
> If it's on a single user's request, <~/.local/share/applications/>
> might be a better location, and wouldn't require special permissions.
>
> If you want the desktop file accessible for all users, you could use
> $XDG_DATA_DIRS to tell programs that use desktop files to access a
> location where all users have permission to read and possibly write.
> Those programs should hopefully use that variable correctly to locate
> your desktop files.
>
> Some more info here:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
>
> Andrew