[Goodies-dev] [Bug 8316] Genmon doesn't like `&'

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8316

--- Comment #5 from David Schneider <dnschneid at gmail.com> 2012-02-15 04:04:53 CET ---
I would be in favor of keeping script-writing as simple as possible (e.g, not
telling the user to "use an xml sanitizer filter"). A <raw> tag accomplishes
the goal unambiguously, and can be documented in the same place that <txt> is,
so anyone who knows about <txt> will know about <raw>.

If the writer doesn't know about <txt> (the use case you suggested where people
just want to naively display some text), I would actually recommend disabling
Pango entirely (e.g. use gtk_label_set_text if newVersion==0). Especially since
you can control the font in the properties dialog, I doubt that anyone would
notice that you can use Pango markup without having looked at the
documentation, in which case they can see that they need to use <txt>.

I feel that making a "smart" detector for Pango would simply make the "gotcha"
even more obscure, and bite people at (even stranger) unexpected times.

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