Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 10:34 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote: >> Rodney Dawes wrote: >>> On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 11:34 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote: >>>> I think that proper US English would be "past due" >>>> >>>> Yes, the work 'passed' exists but it has a different use. Normally used >>>> to indicate that a physical object has been passed: I passed the ball; I >>>> passed the car. But, an account is: 'past due'. This might be >>>> different in British English. >>> Or, the time when a task is due, has passed. >>> >>>> And since "past due" is a single token, this should be: >>>> >>>> task-past_due >>> There is nothing in the spec requiring single tokens to be >>> separated with the _ character. It is only stated as one of >>> the allowed characters. >> Correct. The issue is that the spec says: >> >> The dash "-" character is used to separate levels of specificity in icon >> names, for all contexts other than MimeTypes. >> >> Does that mean that that is the *only* use of the dash. I think that it >> should be, and that is the way that I read it -- if there is a dash in a >> non-MimeType name, then it indicates a separation of levels of specificity. > > No. It does not say only anywhere in that statement in the spec. It is > how you chose to read it, as you want it to be that way. It is used for > both.
Correct. Either way is OK with me, as long as I know which is meant. However, I do note that code is not able to distinguish which use the dash is being used for and will always interpret it as a separation of levels of specificity. I don't see that as a large issue, but it will make some icon searches longer. -- JRT _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
