On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:11 PM Bastien Nocera <[email protected]> wrote:
> What apps? I've shown a link that lists a couple of useful cases. E.g. "signs that are considered rude in some cultures" (note that e.g. GNOME's foot is such an icon), icons that are preferred to be mirrored in RTL locales (maybe the terminal's ">_" icon one day, when generic overall RTL support becomes available there), icons that contain text (e.g. "Aa" for a font ediotr). The question is whether there are any current and future apps for which this feature is desireable to keep. You've done a quick search among Debian packages (thanks for that!), although I'm not sure if we can jump to the conclusion that no current software uses this feature and no future software will. I don't think so. (I am currently working on RTL support for gnome-terminal, so showing a "_<" icon is a possibility I'd prefer not to get rid of.) I totally don't understand what we would gain by removing it from the spec. We'd just lose a (hardly ever used, but theoretically useful) feature. xgettext needs to be fixed anyway. And fixing xgettext on its own, without touching the spec, is already just as good. What additional gain would we get by forbidding it in the spec? cheers, egmont _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
