On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Jung-uk Kim wrote:

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

My fault, arising out of http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=147701

Additionally allowing dashes and underlines seems harmless. Spaces and disallowed characters like slashes were the original concern.
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