RE: desktop entry spec 0.9.7 Exec key parsing

2006-11-03 Thread Bastian, Waldo
The Exec line spec isn't a reflection of (everything) what GNOME and KDE do, it is a recipe for how to create an Exec line that is supported by GNOME and KDE and other conforming implementations and it provides conforming implementations with a limited set of syntactical constructions that they

Re: Perhaps use OASIS Catalogs? [was Re: Help System Spec]

2006-11-03 Thread Don Scorgie
Hi, I'll preface all the comments by stating that the spec was originally written by others. My meagre contribution amounted to adding the Additional Sections (section 5.4), the examples and Joint System Proposal, the many notes scattered throughout and correcting any glaring spelling mistakes.

RE: desktop entry spec 0.9.7 Exec key parsing

2006-11-03 Thread Dan Winship
On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 10:53 -0800, Bastian, Waldo wrote: 1) According to the current spec Exec=foobar.sh %f and Exec=foobar.sh %f are both valid and equivalent. Unfortunately gnome adds single quotes around the filepath when using %f effectively making the path unusable. The bright side is

Re: mimetype standardisation by testsets

2006-11-03 Thread Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen
2006/10/30, Jos van den Oever jvdoever at gmail.com: To make it a bit more concrete (yes, you're probably not running strigi svn) here's some code that generates the xml output using kde3's metadata framework. I'm sure doing the same for other programs is easy too. Then comes the hard task: