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Date:      Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:53:26 -0500
From:      Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
To:        Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@FreeBSD.org>, "freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: [RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES
Message-ID:  <4E1CD066.2050500@missouri.edu>
In-Reply-To: <201107121826.00020.jkim@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201107121826.00020.jkim@FreeBSD.org>

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On 07/12/2011 05:25 PM, 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
>
> To me, it looks far too restrictive.  At least, I'd like to allow '-'
> and '_'.  Please see the attached patch.
>
> Any objections?
>
> Jung-uk Kim

It sounds like a good idea to me.



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