Amazed and appalled

2009-06-26 Thread Mike Hearn
As I was one of the original authors of the notifications spec, somebody pointed me to the recent discussions on xdg-list about it. When Christian and myself wrote this spec, it was to solve a problem the Linux desktop had: the only poptart implementation was KDE specific and so most of the apps

Re: Amazed and appalled

2009-06-26 Thread Jeff Mitchell
Mike Hearn wrote: 5 years on, I just wanted to say that I am in awe at how much time has been wasted discussing the *name* of the *interface* of the *notifications system*. You're missing the point. The much larger issue is the viability of fd.o itself (not the idea, but the actual current

Re: Amazed and appalled

2009-06-26 Thread Olivier Goffart
Le Friday 26 June 2009, Mike Hearn a écrit : As I was one of the original authors of the notifications spec, somebody pointed me to the recent discussions on xdg-list about it. When Christian and myself wrote this spec, it was to solve a problem the Linux desktop had: the only poptart

Re: Amazed and appalled

2009-06-26 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 26 June 2009, Mike Hearn wrote: When Christian and myself wrote this spec, it was to solve a problem the Linux desktop had: the only poptart implementation was KDE specific and so most of the apps we used or worked on (like Gaim and Wine) did not use them. The point of freedesktop

Re: Amazed and appalled

2009-06-26 Thread Michael Pyne
On Friday 26 June 2009 06:47:08 Mike Hearn wrote: 5 years on, I just wanted to say that I am in awe at how much time has been wasted discussing the *name* of the *interface* of the *notifications system*. Aaron has already replied but no one has brought up a question yet which I've been