On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 10:23 -0600, Brian Cameron wrote: > However, I do think more energy should be focused on the truly > cross-platform interfaces that everybody uses. At the very least, the > documentation should avoid making assumptions about these sorts of > interfaces being used by everyone. Especially when information about > these interfaces are mentioned in the documentation for truly cross- > platform interfaces. For example, if the docs for a desktop > application like totem or nautilus needs to discuss udev of PolicyKit, > it should be made clear that not everybody uses these and that other > mechanisms may need to be used on some distros.
OK, I was anticipating this being a hot topic. Conversations have been civil so far (thanks everybody), but let me try to preempt nastiness with a proposal. In the Platform Overview, for each technology, we can make a note of which platforms it's available/encouraged on. We can even link those into pages which list the approved technologies for that platform. This would also give us a way to highlight how our platform can be used to create applications for other operating systems, or even on special Gnome-based platforms. This, of course, opens a new can of worms. I am not going to list every distro under the sun. Lumping GNU/Linux together won't work, because there's differences with PackageKit. -- Shaun _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list