On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 12:20 PM Will Thompson <w...@endlessm.com> wrote:
> I re-read the spec and the spec actually is wrong. It says (emphasis mine): > >> Values of type localestring are user displayable, and are encoded in UTF-8. > > Icon and other keys are defined to be of type localestring. By a literal > reading of this specification, xgettext's behaviour is correct. But the spec > is wrong: icon names are not user displayable. Nice catch! Indeed deserves to be fixed :) Nevertheless, I vote for fixing it without removing the possibility of localizing this field. >> 4. Change GNOME, KDE etc. not to recognize these localized entries > > Tools that just consume .desktop files do not need any changes: they can > continue to respect icon localizations if present. But then really, really, really, what's the point of removing this from the spec (making it an unofficial extension)??? cheers, egmont _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
