On Sunday 03 November 2013 12:49:52 henry miller wrote: > Richard Hughes <hughsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Please don't portray me as a modern-day highwayman as I'm really just > >trying to build an awesome application installer for GNOME. It's two > >orders of magnitude harder to actually write a shared standard and ask > >other desktops to adopt it (making changes as required) rather than a > >quick hack that just works with one desktop on one distribution. > > Let me rewritte the above into a FAQ format: > Q: Why does KDE not ship appdata files > A: the maintainers of appdata have admited they have no interest in > standards, thus KDE has no formal ability to get things we need changed. > In addition while appdata claims to be distribution/gnome, it really is a > Fedora thing and few other distribution packages use it, thus violating > KDEs no patches for on distribution only.
Let's not make a fight of this. I think the point that some people (including me) didn't find the strategy for creating a standard quite optimal was made, and we should drop it now and focus on discussing the adoption of the specification. Sven