Proposal for a MIME mapping spec

[Ville Skyttä]

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 21:25, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 13:54, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Thursday 08 July 2004 11:12, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > > > 	All other lists in .desktop files must be terminated with a ';' AFAIR.
> > > 
> > > That's an old KDE-1 thing, I suggest we drop it. It's not necessary anymore.
> > 
> > Dropping it from Categories breaks at least --add-category in
> > desktop-file-utils < 0.4; 0.4 was released only about 5 months ago. 
> > More info at eg. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/90724
> 
> Can't we just make the trailing ';' optional?

"optional but recommended for backwards compatibility" would sound good
enough to me.  For example Fedora Core 1 has desktop-file-utils which
will break if the trailing semicolon isn't there (in Categories),
optional or not :)