[RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES

[Matthias Andree]

Am 13.07.2011 00:25, schrieb Jung-uk Kim:
> 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
> 
> To me, it looks far too restrictive.  At least, I'd like to allow '-' 
> and '_'.  Please see the attached patch.
> 
> Any objections?

The dot should also be allowed, to cover the POSIX portable filename
character set altogether.

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Matthias Andree