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Bug 212350 - desktop-file-{install,validate} do not accept X-* categories
Summary: desktop-file-{install,validate} do not accept X-* categories
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: desktop-file-utils
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-10-26 14:19 UTC by Ville Skyttä
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2006-10-28 15:17:35 UTC
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Accept categories starting with "X-" (293 bytes, patch)
2006-10-26 14:19 UTC, Ville Skyttä 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Ville Skyttä 2006-10-26 14:19:23 UTC 
desktop-file-{install,validate} from desktop-file-utils 0.11 do not accept 
extension categories starting with "X-", but the desktop menu spec says that's 
what one should use for nonstandard extensions:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/ar01s03.html
"Categories not in this document must be prefixed by the string "X-" 
indicating that they are extensions."

For example:

$ desktop-file-validate /usr/share/applications/gaim.desktop
[...]
/usr/share/applications/gaim.desktop: error: Categories values must be one of 
[...] (found "X-Red-Hat-Base")

Reported here because of no desktop-file-utils component in upstream Bugzilla 
(https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4959)

It also rejects the "Application" category, but that's ok, as it's not a 
standard one.  Patch attached.
Comment 1 Ville Skyttä 2006-10-26 14:19:23 UTC 
Created attachment 139463 [details]
Accept categories starting with "X-"
Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-10-26 17:44:32 UTC 
Hey thanks for the patch.  I'm going to be doing an upstream desktop-file-utils
release soon, i'll fold this in.
Comment 3 Matthias Clasen 2006-10-28 15:17:35 UTC 
Should be fixed in desktop-file-utils-0.11-4
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