After I updated x11-wm/compiz, GNOME was not able to start the window manager. Basically, it complained that compiz-manager was not found. Then, I realized compiz-manager.desktop was automagically replaced by compizmanager.desktop. Now I tracked it down to this commit:
Sat Nov 27 17:42:46 2010 UTC (7 months, 2 weeks ago) by pav - DESKTOP_ENTRIES: commandline is used to name installed .desktop file, this can lead to files containing whitespace and funny characters; thus strip all non-alphanumeric characters http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk.diff?r1=1.656;r2=1.657 To me, it looks far too restrictive. At least, I'd like to allow '-' and '_'. Please see the attached patch. Any objections? Jung-uk Kim
Index: bsd.port.mk =================================================================== RCS file: /home/pcvs/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk,v retrieving revision 1.687 diff -u -r1.687 bsd.port.mk --- bsd.port.mk 3 Jul 2011 15:51:18 -0000 1.687 +++ bsd.port.mk 12 Jul 2011 21:58:02 -0000 @@ -6432,7 +6432,7 @@ ${ECHO_CMD} "@cwd ${DESKTOPDIR}" >> ${TMPPLIST}; \ fi; \ while [ $$# -gt 6 ]; do \ - filename="`${ECHO_CMD} "$$4" | ${TR} -cd [:alnum:]`.desktop"; \ + filename="`${ECHO_CMD} "$$4" | ${TR} -cd "[:alnum:]-_"`.desktop"; \ pathname="${DESKTOPDIR}/$$filename"; \ categories="$$5"; \ if [ -z "$$categories" ]; then \
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