Fwd: Re: [RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 7/13/11 7:21 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> Any comments?

I'm personally fine allowing '-' and '_'.  I think those characters are
perfectly reasonable (especially '-').

Joe

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jung-uk Kim
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> 
> Subject: Re: [RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES
> Date: Wednesday 13 July 2011 04:31 pm
> From: Pav Lucistnik <pav at freebsd.org>
> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim at freebsd.org>
> Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at freebsd.org>, 
> freebsd-ports at freebsd.org
> 
> Jung-uk Kim p紫e v st 13. 07. 2011 v 11:41 -0400:
>> On Wednesday 13 July 2011 07:39 am, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
>>> On 2011/07/13 00:25, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>>>> After I updated x11-wm/compiz, GNOME was not able to start the
>>>> window manager.  Basically, it complained that compiz-manager
>>>> was not found. Then, I realized compiz-manager.desktop was
>>>> automagically replaced by compizmanager.desktop.  Now I tracked
>>>> it down to this commit:
>>>>
>>>> Sat Nov 27 17:42:46 2010 UTC (7 months, 2 weeks ago) by pav
>>>>
>>>> - DESKTOP_ENTRIES: commandline is used to name installed
>>>> .desktop file, this can lead to files containing whitespace and
>>>> funny characters; thus strip all non-alphanumeric characters
>>>>
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk.diff
>>>> ?r 1=1.656;r2=1.657
>>>>
>>>> To me, it looks far too restrictive.  At least, I'd like to
>>>> allow '-' and '_'.  Please see the attached patch.
>>>>
>>>> Any objections?
>>>
>>> Shouldn't you fix whatever is trying to call compizmanager not to
>>> use .desktop file instead?
>>
>> GNOME session manager calls the compiz-manager, i.e., the user has
>> to change it manually.  Actually, x11-wm/compiz/pkg-message
>> recommended this:
>>
>> "If you are using gnome, you can use the configuration editor to
>> set the value of:
>>
>> desktop->gnome->session->required_components->windowmanager =
>> compiz-manager
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> This will enable compiz as your default window manager."
> 
> What does the gnome@ people said about this whole issue?
> 
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