On Wednesday, October 11, 2017 07:28:08 AM Simon McVittie wrote:
> If there is consensus that the recommendation should be dashes and not
> underscores, I'd be willing to go with that instead, but I think we
> should pick one.
I'd like to cast a vote in favor of dashes instead of underscores, primarily
because (at least on US keyboards), typing an underscore requires pressing
<shift> while typing a dash does not.
I do agree that a standard would be nice--in lots of situations (not just app
names, but also filenames for example), either might be used, and if I need to
glance at a filename, store it in short term wetwork memory, I always have
trouble distinguishing and remembering whether what I saw was a dash or an
underbar. It requires an extra level of concentration which I would prefer to
avoid.
(I suppose I will eventually train myself to look more carefully at things
like filenames with underbars or dashes rather than have to go back and look a
2nd time.)
> Unfortunately it looks as though the AppStream spec currently allows
> dashes but not underscores, which (if enforced) conflicts fairly badly
> with Flatpak renaming AppStream XML that doesn't match the Flatpak app
> IDs (underscores but not dashes). Would the maintainers of AppStream
> be willing/able to relax the spec for <id> to allow underscores?
> If not, then I think the AppStream spec should explain what you should
> do if your desktop file ID contains an underscore (presumably replacing
> it with a dash).
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