Desktop entry spec, allowed characterss

[Vincent Untz]

Le mercredi 10 janvier 2007, à 08:15, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> I recently changed the GKeyFile parser in glib to more faithfully
> implement the .ini-file format flavour described in the desktop entry
> spec. The was triggered by a bug complaining that the glib support
> wasn't symmetric, ie it could produce files that it failed to read
> in later.
> 
> It turned out that the restriction of keys to A-Za-z0-9- is problematic,
> since users of GKeyFile use e.g. mime types (like application/x-foo  or
> image/*) as keys. I'd like to propose that the desktop entry spec
> should be changed to allow such characters in keys (at least /_+*. ,
> possibly more). Otherwise I will have to make GKeyFile deviate from
> the desktop entry spec format, to avoid breaking existing users.

Is there any opposition to this?

> I have also had one bug report that complained about ' ' not being
> allowed in keys anymore, but allowing that would be a bit problematic,
> since the spec specifies that whitespace is stripped around the = sign.
> That could lead to a situation where
> 
> foo [en] = foo
> 
> is a valid entry for the key 'foo ', but
> 
> foo  = bar
> 
> is an entry for the key 'foo'.

What was the use case for ' '? I guess it can nearly always be replaced
with '_' or '-'...

Vincent

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