-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 12:05:41PM -0000, qubist wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking at the filenames in: > > ~/.config/menus/applications-merged/*.menu > > I notice some weird naming and strange "duplicates", e.g. > > user-qubes-vm-directory_sys_dwhonix.menu (from 2025-05-17) > user-qubes-vm-directory-sys-whonix.menu (from 2024-01-09)
Interesting, the old file should be removed by the xdg-desktop-menu tool when old entries were removed. Do you actually see duplicate entries in the menu? > I also see why dashes replaced with '_d' in newer "duplicates". Characters used as delimiters are escaped in qube names. While in practice it isn't strictly necessary in the current naming scheme (that uses only prefixes for different entries types), it avoids ambiguity when parsing the name from the end (for example a qube named "vm-directory-something"), and allows safely introducing other characters in the qube names (the change was made when allowing dots in qube names - to avoid names like something.menu.menu). Currently escaped characters are: - '_' - as '_u' - '-' - as '_d' - '.' - as '_p' > Questions: > > 1. Why duplicates? > 2. Why the replacement? > 3. Which script(s) handle that naming? See qubes-desktop-linux-common repository, especially qubesappmenus/__init__.py - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEhrpukzGPukRmQqkK24/THMrX1ywFAmisVfkACgkQ24/THMrX 1ywllQf/QYhfY351Ss/6FcSXrVs7hvuwSDiOyQ6p9hhbCJxiA/mlscbgoF4fVKwk zicZKCA54tGXgRMVuuO+gGaAgvQBg6nRJMu/ATQyFvFecJNoQoY02OcjxgW0lNyq FMEOVJN7s5SLlKp1hxVWFA7+T66ONnIojSPs+RINFzcdtb1EZD7t/Nr2SF33USHy j/wcFIfIrfBqAEFFaWqqQiriKPzIe5+MyygUrtMwk0YKqNccweUK91UduijkRtCa WdbWZoogylCCbSF0WkBhhcFYGgknyb41n2pHQEdMWaYXBEjM6yiz5EhkiZIJig9Y y6Pmy9vtOaHAOOXynJocQR5aBe0wFw== =L4ig -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/aKxV-RIrHRrsb_QF%40mail-itl.
