Re: Window managers and their desktop files
- From: Dan Winship <danw gnome org>
- To: Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>
- Cc: desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Window managers and their desktop files
- Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:47:51 -0400
Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Dan Winship <danw gnome org> wrote:
>> The basic format of the desktop entry file requires that there be a
>> group header named Desktop Entry. There may be other groups present
>> in the file... There should be nothing preceding [the Desktop Entry]
>> group in the desktop entry file but possibly one or more comments.
>>
>> If there are apps that fail when a "Window Manager" group is present
>> after the "Desktop Entry" group, then those apps are broken.
>
> desktop-file-validate considers it broken...
Hm...
metacity.desktop: error: file contains group "Window Manager", but
groups extending the format should start with "X-"
Oh, it's not complaining that there's an additional group, it just
doesn't like the name. And sure enough, the spec does say that
non-standard groups "should" use [X-PRODUCT GROUPNAME], it's just in a
different part of the spec from where I was looking. My bad.
(But that means "[X-Window Manager]" would still be wrong though; it
should be "[X-GNOME Window Manager]".)
-- Dan
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