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parse: Don't do delayed property setting for top-level properties.

Jan Schmidt requested to merge thaytan/gstreamer:parse-error-properties-nonexisting into master

If a property is supplied to gst-launch-1.0 to set on a property that implements GstChildProxy, it would always accept any property name and try to set it later. This means that (for example) decodebin will accept and not complain about property names that can never exist like:

gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc ! decodebin NON-EXISTING_PROPERTY=adsfdasf ! fakesink

Instead, only try to do deferred property setting for property names that contain the :: separator that indicates it's a setting on a child that might appear later.

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