Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You mean the specification that is followed mostly in the breech by > actual implementations and to which KDE at least has a whole ton of > extensions?
Or in the breach, even. Although in the breech does sum up my opinion on parts of it. :) Some examples: http://lintian.debian.org/tags/desktop-entry-contains-unknown-key.html (and that doesn't include the ones that aren't listed in the standard but that Lintian has just given up on because they're so widespread, like Actions) http://lintian.debian.org/tags/desktop-entry-invalid-category.html (and that doesn't count Application and GNUstep, which are also invalid but which I just gave up on since they're used all over the place) http://lintian.debian.org/tags/desktop-entry-lacks-main-category.html http://lintian.debian.org/tags/desktop-entry-uses-reserved-category.html And that's just the stuff that Lintian happens to check for. I shudder to think what the results would be if Lintian started doing a complete syntax check against the standard, looking for things like ending list attributes with a semicolon the way they're required to be. Not to mention that, as standards go, the XDG menu and desktop standard is a rather poor one. It's not very well-written, it's not very clear, it's huge (tons of different keys with different meanings, sometimes cryptically explained), and the menu category list in particular is horribly scattershot and confusing. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
