[RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES
Warren Block
wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Jul 12 23:58:26 UTC 2011
On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, 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?r1=1.656;r2=1.657
My fault, arising out of
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=147701
Additionally allowing dashes and underlines seems harmless. Spaces and
disallowed characters like slashes were the original concern.
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