Commited as 0.9.5 See http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards_2fdesktop_2dentry_2dspec
On Monday 22 May 2006 22:57, Bastian, Waldo wrote: > Looks ok, unless objections are raised I will commit these changes by the > end of this week. Some additional comments: > > Re: encoding.diff > > In the chunk at line 148, I would mention that use of ENCODING is > deprecated. > > Re: multiple-groups > > What about stating that multiple groups with the same name are not allowed? > Otherwise we will need to make sure that different implementations actually > handle this in the same way, which I fear they may not at the moment. > > Re: SortOrder > > I think it can be deprecated. It's currently underspecified and the > menu-spec defines another mechanism for defining the order of menu-items. > > Re: FilePattern > > I am not aware of it being used in any way. > > Re: Other stuff > > 1) The section "Priority of MIME types and desktop files" doesn't seem to > belong in the desktop entry spec. > > 2) Escaping of the exec parameters refers to "mailcap" and RFC1524. I don't > think that is very helpful and/or accurate. Maybe we can come up with a > simple "<command> [<args>]*" style syntax of things that are supported. > > 3) Non-absolute Icon= entries are labeled "implementation-dependent". In an > ideal world we would be able to refer to the icon theme spec here. > > Waldo Bastian > Linux Client Architect - Client Linux Foundation Technology > Channel Platform Solutions Group > Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux > OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:xdg- > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vincent Untz > >Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 2:45 AM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: Moving towards version 1.0 of desktop entry spec > > > >Le samedi 22 avril 2006 à 10:04 +0200, Vincent Untz a écrit : > >> Hi, > >> > >> Here's a small patch fixing really minor stuff in the desktop entry > >> spec: > > > >I did some more work this morning. > > > >Here's a bunch of patches to apply in the following order: > > cleanup.diff > > cleanup2.diff > > encoding.diff > > swallow.diff > > reorganize.diff > > group.diff > > keys.diff > > > >cleanup.diff: the patch I sent a few weeks ago > >cleanup2.diff: some more cleanup, mainly adding some <literal> tags > >encoding.diff: move all of the legacy-mixed encoding stuff to the > > appendix > >swallow.diff: deprecate the Swallow* keys > >reorganize.diff: move lots of text around. It makes the spec easier to > > understand, IMHO. > >group.diff: improve definition of group headers > >keys.diff: reorder the list of standard keys so they are sorted by type > > > >I believe this should be okay for everyone, but make sure to verify :-) > > > >I don't have a fd.o cvs account, so I won't be able to commit them. But > >I can ask for one if necessary. > > > > > >Here's a list of things that I intend to work on: > > > > + move all the FSDevice-related keys to appendix B ("Currently > > reserved for use within KDE"). I won't make the change if some > > other project is using those keys or if people disagree. > > > > + define the type of regexp that is accepted. Any feedback on what it > > should be? > > > > + tell what should happen when multiple group headers have the same > > name. We could either merge them, only use the first, only use > > the last, etc. I'd say we should only use the last one. > > > > + change the type of the version key to string and specify its format > > (MAJOR.MINOR.MICRO where MAJOR, MINOR and MICRO are positive > > integers). 0.9.4 is not a numeric value ;-) > > > > + I don't think the SortOrder key is useful with the menu spec. Should > > it be deprecated? > > > > + is the FilePattern key used? > > > >Is there any other issue in this spec that we should solve? > > > >Vincent > > > >-- > >Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. > > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg -- Linux Client Architect - Channel Platform Solutions Group - Intel Corporation
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