Moving towards version 1.0 of desktop entry spec

[Waldo Bastian]

Commited as 0.9.5 See 
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fdesktop_2dentry_2dspec

On Monday 22 May 2006 22:57, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
> Looks ok, unless objections are raised I will commit these changes by the
> end of this week. Some additional comments:
>
> Re: encoding.diff
>
> In the chunk at line 148, I would mention that use of ENCODING is
> deprecated.
>
> Re: multiple-groups
>
> What about stating that multiple groups with the same name are not allowed?
> Otherwise we will need to make sure that different implementations actually
> handle this in the same way, which I fear they may not at the moment.
>
> Re: SortOrder
>
> I think it can be deprecated. It's currently underspecified and the
> menu-spec defines another mechanism for defining the order of menu-items.
>
> Re: FilePattern
>
> I am not aware of it being used in any way.
>
> Re: Other stuff
>
> 1) The section "Priority of MIME types and desktop files" doesn't seem to
> belong in the desktop entry spec.
>
> 2) Escaping of the exec parameters refers to "mailcap" and RFC1524. I don't
> think that is very helpful and/or accurate. Maybe we can come up with a
> simple "<command> [<args>]*" style syntax of things that are supported.
>
> 3) Non-absolute Icon= entries are labeled "implementation-dependent". In an
> ideal world we would be able to refer to the icon theme spec here.
>
> Waldo Bastian
> Linux Client Architect - Client Linux Foundation Technology
> Channel Platform Solutions Group
> Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux
> OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: xdg-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org [mailto:xdg-
> >bounces at lists.freedesktop.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Untz
> >Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 2:45 AM
> >To: xdg at lists.freedesktop.org
> >Subject: Re: Moving towards version 1.0 of desktop entry spec
> >
> >Le samedi 22 avril 2006 à 10:04 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Here's a small patch fixing really minor stuff in the desktop entry
> >> spec:
> >
> >I did some more work this morning.
> >
> >Here's a bunch of patches to apply in the following order:
> >  cleanup.diff
> >  cleanup2.diff
> >  encoding.diff
> >  swallow.diff
> >  reorganize.diff
> >  group.diff
> >  keys.diff
> >
> >cleanup.diff: the patch I sent a few weeks ago
> >cleanup2.diff: some more cleanup, mainly adding some <literal> tags
> >encoding.diff: move all of the legacy-mixed encoding stuff to the
> >               appendix
> >swallow.diff: deprecate the Swallow* keys
> >reorganize.diff: move lots of text around. It makes the spec easier to
> >                 understand, IMHO.
> >group.diff: improve definition of group headers
> >keys.diff: reorder the list of standard keys so they are sorted by type
> >
> >I believe this should be okay for everyone, but make sure to verify :-)
> >
> >I don't have a fd.o cvs account, so I won't be able to commit them. But
> >I can ask for one if necessary.
> >
> >
> >Here's a list of things that I intend to work on:
> >
> >  + move all the FSDevice-related keys to appendix B ("Currently
> >    reserved for use within KDE"). I won't make the change if some
> >    other project is using those keys or if people disagree.
> >
> >  + define the type of regexp that is accepted. Any feedback on what it
> >    should be?
> >
> >  + tell what should happen when multiple group headers have the same
> >    name. We could either merge them, only use the first, only use
> >    the last, etc. I'd say we should only use the last one.
> >
> >  + change the type of the version key to string and specify its format
> >    (MAJOR.MINOR.MICRO where MAJOR, MINOR and MICRO are positive
> >    integers). 0.9.4 is not a numeric value ;-)
> >
> >  + I don't think the SortOrder key is useful with the menu spec. Should
> >    it be deprecated?
> >
> >  + is the FilePattern key used?
> >
> >Is there any other issue in this spec that we should solve?
> >
> >Vincent
> >
> >--
> >Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés.
>
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