On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:32:39PM +0200, Ariszló wrote: > On 9/26/07, Bill Allombert wrote: > > could you point me where the XDG draft forbid space inside the Icon > > field? The only requirement I can find is that it should be > > an UTF-8 string. > > Nowhere, so call it an implementation issue if you like. However, it > has never been considered the brightest idea to use spaces in file > names because they may break things unexpectedly as they do here. You > will not find spaces in the file names of the binary executables in > /usr/bin or in the file names of the libraries in /usr/lib or in the > icon names of standard icon themes.
Well but that does not make space in the icon field "incorrect". Beside the Icon field is not specified to be a filename in that case. What is the exact failure condition ? If some application cannot handle some UTF-8 strings as a valid Icon field, then either the application or the draft standard is broken. I do not mind working around this issue, but I do not want GNOME bugs to be ascribed to menu-xdg. Cheers, Bill.
