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Date:      Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:21:36 -0400
From:      Jung-uk Kim <jkim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Pav Lucistnik <pav@FreeBSD.org>, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Fwd: Re: [RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES
Message-ID:  <201107131921.38593.jkim@FreeBSD.org>

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Any comments?

Thanks,

Jung-uk Kim
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Subject: Re: [RFC] A trivial change for DESKTOP_ENTRIES
Date: Wednesday 13 July 2011 04:31 pm
From: Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>
To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@freebsd.org>
Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@freebsd.org>, 
freebsd-ports@freebsd.org

Jung-uk Kim p紫e v st 13. 07. 2011 v 11:41 -0400:
> On Wednesday 13 July 2011 07:39 am, Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> > On 2011/07/13 00:25, 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
> > >?r 1=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?
> >
> > Shouldn't you fix whatever is trying to call compizmanager not to
> > use .desktop file instead?
>
> GNOME session manager calls the compiz-manager, i.e., the user has
> to change it manually.  Actually, x11-wm/compiz/pkg-message
> recommended this:
>
> "If you are using gnome, you can use the configuration editor to
> set the value of:
>
> desktop->gnome->session->required_components->windowmanager =
> compiz-manager
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> This will enable compiz as your default window manager."

What does the gnome@ people said about this whole issue?

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Pav Lucistnik <pav@oook.cz>
              <pav@FreeBSD.org>
KDE is for the techies who feel they can't be productive without
 being able to control the exact amount of bevel in their window
 frames in 2% increments.

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