Attachment 134791 Details for Bug 103216 – desktop-entry-spec: Formalize the reverse DNS convention

[patch] desktop-entry-spec: Formalize the reverse DNS convention

0003-desktop-entry-spec-Formalize-the-reverse-DNS-convent.patch (text/plain), 1.59 KB, created by Simon McVittie on 2017-10-11 10:29:02 UTC

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>From 573aa0110a47bd4566c6597c5af40687b02eab59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 11:00:26 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH 3/4] desktop-entry-spec: Formalize the reverse DNS convention
>
>Also mention the D-Bus convention for the part after the domain name,
>which is widely deployed and seems as good as anything else.
>
>Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
>---
> desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml | 11 ++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml b/desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml
>index 346d41b..63c4a70 100644
>--- a/desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml
>+++ b/desktop-entry/desktop-entry-spec.xml
>@@ -109,9 +109,14 @@
>     </para>
>     <para>
>       The name of the desktop entry should follow the "reverse DNS"
>-      convention, for example <literal>org.example.FooViewer</literal>,
>-      resulting in a file named
>-      <literal>org.example.FooViewer.desktop</literal>.
>+      convention: it should start with a reversed DNS domain name
>+      controlled by the author of the application, in lower case. The
>+      domain name should be followed by the name of the application, which
>+      is conventionally written with words run together and initial capital
>+      letters (CamelCase). For example, if the owner of
>+      <literal>example.org</literal> writes "Foo Viewer", they might choose
>+      the name <literal>org.example.FooViewer</literal>, resulting in a file
>+      named <literal>org.example.FooViewer.desktop</literal>.
>     </para>
> 
>     <sect2 id="desktop-file-id">
>-- 
>2.15.0.rc0
>

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