> My personal feeling is that we shouldn't use them in our conffiles,

Agree. I think that apart from the reasons mentioned above, it just looks nicer 
in the conf file when all commented-out lines start with `#`.
 
> but that we should support them in the file type; I don't see any reason why 
> to limit this, is there really valid cases where it causes problem to support 
> it?

I don't have a strong opinion on this. There are two possible views:

1. Display all possible conf files nicely syntax-highlighted.
2. Encourage users to use the safest conf file format possible by not 
highlighting a possibly invalid format (the specification here 
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s03.html 
doesn't say anything about leading or trailing spaces so it may be 
implementation specific).


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