Le mercredi 30 novembre 2011, à 17:36 +0100, David Faure a écrit : > On Thursday 24 November 2011 22:27:23 Jannis Pohlmann wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:03:08 +0100 > > > > Giovanni Campagna <scampa.giova...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Il giorno gio, 24/11/2011 alle 17.56 +0000, Jannis Pohlmann ha > > > > > > scritto: > > > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:43:17 +0000 > > > > > > > > Peter Brett <pe...@peter-b.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> [...] > > > >> > > > > > It would be nice to avoid a repeat of the controversy that > > > > > happened earlier this year w.r.t. libappindicator/StatusNotifier > > > > > and GNOME, and I think the best way to avoid that would be for > > > > > the GNOME and KDE and Unity (and XFCE etc.) folks to collaborate > > > > > and present a proposal *together*. > > > > > > > > I haven't managed to read the previous mails properly yet but let me > > > > throw in here that Xfce has repeatedly complained about Desktop > > > > Actions being deprecated (for no particularly convincing reasons > > > > AFAIR) because we found them to be very useful. > > > > > > What specification are you referring to? > > > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.5 > > .html#mime-types > > > > This section is no longer present in recent versions of the desktop > > entry spec. > > Yep, and I agree with you, it makes no sense. Both KDE and XFCE use it, at > least. > > My (controversial) explanation is that gnome doesn't use that, or stopped > using that, so they removed it from the spec.
Heh, that's not what happened: when Waldo pushed for the 1.0 version of the spec, it was decided to drop this part of the spec because it was under-specified. I'm all for adding it back if there's a need, and if it's well specified. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg