Desktop Entry Specification is missing [ as a reserved character in Exec

meator meator.dev at gmail.com
Sun Aug 4 17:37:59 UTC 2024


On 6/25/24 7:42 PM, meator wrote:
> Because of this thread and because of other concerns, I chose to switch 
> the Exec handling mechanism of j4-dmenu-desktop (a desktop file runner 
> program I maintain) from the shell approach to the manual one.

I've released my changes now. People are making bug reports to my 
project because their broken nonconformant desktop files stopped working 
since I've implemented manual Exec handling. This is another reason why 
I support clarifying the current standard.
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