Thomas Lübking wrote: > Am Monday 10 August 2009 schrieb Matthew Woehlke: >> So... what? I can't use '-' in the name of a program? Or what do I need >> to change so that I can use '-' everywhere *except* the dbus path? > > actually it appears that kmainwindow.cpp #367ff should handle that for you > maybe QChar::isLetterOrNumber() interprets "-" as number > -> should be: > if (!(pathname[i].isLetter() || pathname[i].isDigit()) Yup, that looks like a bug. Want to fix it, or shall I? However, it's not the problem I am having, though you pointed me in the right direction. Apparently KAboutData::appName must be a valid identifier (regex "([:letter:]|[:digit:]|_)+"). This is neither documented (not in KAboutData, anyway) nor enforced (until it hits the assert registering with dbus), nor is there sanitizing being done on it in KAboutData, unlike KMainWindow. Is the above restriction supposed to exist? If not, KMainWindow needs to sanitize also the appName when building the dbus path. Else IMO the API doc for KAboutName should at least mention this restriction, if not enforce it in at least the KApplication ctor, if not KAboutData (or both). I guess appName never shows up anywhere visible to the user? -- Matthew Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. -- Never give up on learning >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<