Freedesktop standards now say "These are not really standards", and redirect to "Specifications".
IMHO, these ARE standards, just not official or authoritative like ISO or IEEE standards. It is common to refer to "coding standards" for source code conventions defined within an organization or programming project. The first definition of standards at dictionary.com is: "something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison; an approved model." Whatever the reason, I think it would be useful to give a better explanation of why Freedesktop is avoiding the term standards, instead of just "freedesktop.org is not a standards body." Maybe it is also partly because these are still under development and subject to change, or maybe it is because some people were mistakenly considering or referring to Freedesktop specs in a way that implied they are formal standards? Joe Krahn _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg