The description of the "numeric" data type in the Desktop Entry Spec is:
a valid floating point number as recognized by the %f specifier for
scanf.
But this makes its representation locale-dependent (eg, "Version=1.0" in
en_EN, "Version=1,0" in fr_FR). It needs to say:
a valid floating point number as recognized by the %f specifier for
scanf in the C locale.
(Google codesearch doesn't turn up any desktop files that actually mess
up because of this.)
The description of the Version key also sort of implies that a
conforming .desktop file will have either no Version key or
"Version=1.0", but really, it could also have "Version=1",
"Version=1.00000", or "Version=+01.0e0".
(Google doesn't turn up any .desktop files that get that wrong either,
but if a GNOME app used g_key_file_set_double() to set the Version key
in a new .desktop file, it would end up with "Version=1".)
-- Dan
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