Re: Seeking clarification of Desktop Entry Specification

2020-04-24 Thread Bollinger, John C
(1) #basic-format says "A file is interpreted as a series of lines that are separated by linefeed characters." #value-types says "The escape sequences \s, \n, \t, \r, and \\ are supported for values of type string and localestring, meaning ASCII space, newline, tab, carriage return, and

Re: Seeking clarification of Desktop Entry Specification

2020-04-24 Thread rhkramer
On Friday, April 24, 2020 06:37:59 AM Stephan Bergmann wrote: > I have three questions regarding > ec-1.1.html>: > > (1) #basic-format says "A file is interpreted as a series of lines that > are separated by linefeed

Re: Seeking clarification of Desktop Entry Specification

2020-04-24 Thread Stefan Blachmann
Regarding (2): I have found both kinds of whitespace in desktop entry files. So, as a practical matter, both SPACEs and TABs need to be filtered out when reading these files. On 4/24/20, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > I have three questions regarding >