Le dimanche 11 mars 2007, à 17:23 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit :
> Le mercredi 10 janvier 2007, à 08:15, Matthias Clasen a écrit :
> > I recently changed the GKeyFile parser in glib to more faithfully
> > implement the .ini-file format flavour described in the desktop entry
> > spec. The was triggered by a bug complaining that the glib support
> > wasn't symmetric, ie it could produce files that it failed to read
> > in later.
> >
> > It turned out that the restriction of keys to A-Za-z0-9- is problematic,
> > since users of GKeyFile use e.g. mime types (like application/x-foo or
> > image/*) as keys. I'd like to propose that the desktop entry spec
> > should be changed to allow such characters in keys (at least /_+*. ,
> > possibly more). Otherwise I will have to make GKeyFile deviate from
> > the desktop entry spec format, to avoid breaking existing users.
>
> Is there any opposition to this?
Here's a patch for this - I only added "/_+*.".
Any +1 or -1 for this? I'll commit the patch in a few weeks if nobody is
against it.
Vincent
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Index: desktop-entry-spec.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/menus/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -p -r1.31 desktop-entry-spec.xml
--- desktop-entry-spec.xml 28 Apr 2007 13:56:33 -0000 1.31
+++ desktop-entry-spec.xml 28 Apr 2007 13:59:44 -0000
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
</para>
<para>
Key names must contain only the characters
- <literal>A-Za-z0-9-</literal>.
+ <literal>A-Za-z0-9/_+*.-</literal>.
</para>
<para>
As the case is significant, the keys <varname>Name</varname> and
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