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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: new "Label" keyword for desktop files...
From:       Bernd Gehrmann <bernd () physik ! hu-berlin ! de>
Date:       1999-07-26 15:03:49
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> Name entries may contain spaces (and some apps actually use this), but we
> can't use server names with spaces in the IMR. The reason is that the
> server name is passed as cmdline by the mediators (some "-OAfoo " option,
> but you know this :)

And that makes it very obvious that the use of Name in the IMR
is misguided. Name is a user-visible string and therefore by
definition not suitable as an identifier.

Bernd.

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