On 2 Sep 2008, at 19:07, Jim Walker wrote: > > bash-3.2$ desktop-file-validate meld.desktop > meld.desktop: warning: key "Encoding" in group "Desktop Entry" is > deprecated > meld.desktop: warning: value "GNOME;Application;Development;" for > key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" contains a deprecated > value "Application" > > Let me know what things I should push upstream.
I would suggest pushing the Comment change (trailing period), and the removal of the Encoding key and Applications category. They're all minor issues and it's certainly not worth maintaining local patches for them, though. > Here's a cutdown version of the meld.desktop file: The rest looks good. > BTW. It looks like these warnings aren't uncommon... Yeah, sadly not. Maintainers don't tend to pay much attention to their .desktop files until something actually breaks. > BTW. I get this in the terminal when I click on meld help: > OMF category 'GNOME|Application|Utility' not recognised, ignoring. > > Any ideas? Hmm, IIRC the OMF category is set in the application's .omf file, which should be in the package somewhere. This file provides documentation metadata that is used by Rarian (formerly Scrollkeeper). I'm not sure what's invalid about the category, or what the correct value would be, though... might have to do some digging around some other GNOME apps to see what they use. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
