Reclassify Icon= in .desktop files as string, not localestring

[Egmont Koblinger]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:20 PM Will Thompson <wjt at endlessm.com> wrote:

> I re-read the spec and the spec actually is wrong. It says (emphasis mine):
>
>> Values of type localestring are user displayable, and are encoded in UTF-8.
>
> Icon and other keys are defined to be of type localestring. By a literal reading of this specification, xgettext's behaviour is correct. But the spec is wrong: icon names are not user displayable.

Nice catch! Indeed deserves to be fixed :)

Nevertheless, I vote for fixing it without removing the possibility of
localizing this field.

>> 4. Change GNOME, KDE etc. not to recognize these localized entries
>
>  Tools that just consume .desktop files do not need any changes: they can continue to respect icon localizations if present.

But then really, really, really, what's the point of removing this
from the spec (making it an unofficial extension)???


cheers,
egmont