[RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES

[Pav Lucistnik]

Jung-uk Kim píše 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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Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
              <pav at FreeBSD.org>
KDE is for the techies who feel they can't be productive without being
able to control the exact amount of bevel in their window frames in 2%
increments.
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