[patch] Formatting in desktop entry spec makes meaning unclear

Vincent Untz vuntz at gnome.org
Thu Sep 11 18:02:25 PDT 2008


Le mercredi 10 septembre 2008, à 13:46 +0100, Simon McVittie a écrit :
> The typography of the Desktop Entry Spec makes it ambiguous whether dots
> are allowed in key names (reading the markup indicates that they're not,
> but the character class is at the end of a sentence, so the full stop that
> ends the sentence looks as though it might be part of the character class).
> 
> I attach a patch that re-words the text so the character class is in the middle
> of the sentence. Could someone review this and commit it if approved?

Thanks, committed.

> (Is CVS (ugh) still the canonical location for the desktop entry spec?
> The patch is against CVS, since I couldn't find a svn or git repository
> for it.)

Yeah, still CVS for now. It will change at some point.

Vincent

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