Desktop Entry patches and clarifications

Vincent Untz vuntz at gnome.org
Sat Apr 28 06:46:49 PDT 2007


Le dimanche 11 mars 2007, à 17:18 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> Here are some patches:
> 
>  + trailing-semicolon.patch: clarify that lists should always end with a
>    semicolon, even if there's only one value. This is currently
>    ambiguous in the spec.
> 
>  + unmounticon.patch: UnmountIcon is a localestring key
> 
>  + version-string.patch: this changes the type of the version from
>    numeric to string. It's needed if we consider the possibility that
>    there are some desktop entry files out there using 0.9.x as a value
>    for this key. The change doesn't break anything.
> 
>  + typo.patch: small typo
> 
>  + context.patch: clarify a bit the text about keys that only makes
>    sense in a specific context. Also, state that the keys should not be
>    used outside of this context. For example, the URL key should not be
>    present if the type is not Link.
> 
>  + directory.patch: desktop files of type Directory have a .directory
>    extension right now (at least in GNOME), but according to the spec,
>    this is wrong. The patch fixes this. Also, it removes a small part of
>    text explaining the name of a desktop file describing a directory.
>    (see also below)
> 
>  + required-in-context.patch: IMHO, a desktop file of type Application
>    should always have an Exec key. Same for Link Type and URL key. This
>    patch changes this.

I committed all those patches.

> And now, some issues that we should fix :-)

Those issues (see original mail) are still there.

Vincent

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