Hi, I don't know how many freedesktop functionalities the project complies with, nor the use of ".conf" in other projects. Without a serious study with real data, I can't know, but I do know that you won't go from distribution to distribution convincing them to maintain a special configuration script for GNUstep, especially when in most distributions the GNUstep repositories are not updated, nor is it a reference framework.
What I do know is that when users manage to install GNUstep, a GNUStep folder appears in their user folder, and very few applications are so intrusive (some are, surely someone will look for them and list them to contradict me). As for the use of Flatpak, I don't have statistics either, but I know that moderately serious distributions accept Flatpak packages and repositories. There are other alternatives, such as generating specific packages for each distribution (but I think that's more work to do and maintain), or using package managers like Anaconda, which only some Python developers know and have needed to use. Also, This type of package does not integrate well with app stores because it is not as simple as providing a repository URL in the style of Flathub (and I'm not saying to upload the applications to Flathub, it's just an example of how to facilitate the distribution of applications across different Linux distributions). You talk about marketing and how to attract new developers, I have only pointed out two aspects that I believe are key to attracting developers' attention.There are many others, but I don't want to get into discussions because I already pointed them out a year ago and since then not much has changed. Finally, look at projects like Flutter that it's not even in the repositories of the distributions. Not only is the documentation excellent, but from the moment you download their software, it is very easy to start developing, testing, and publishing applications. These are the kinds of conveniences that developers expect in 2024. Albert > El 15 jul. 2024, a les 8:35, Riccardo Mottola <[email protected]> va > escriure: > > Hi Albert, > > Albert Palacios wrote: >> Maybe I am completely wrong, but GNUstep's approach to storing user >> preferences doesn't follow the freedesktop recommendations. > > is this the only freedesktop details that irks you? are there more? please > let's discuss in a new thread about this. > >> >> The freedesktop recommendation, suggest using ~/.configfor user-specific >> configuration files (~/.config/GNUstep/Preferences), GNUstep, however, uses >> its own convention with the ~/GNUstep directory. >> > > I have checked on my Linux system the configure file situation and it is a > little mess :) very few apps store it in .config apparently. > I want also to understand if this is just a "clean up" situation or if the > end-user might notice issues or missing functionality. > > Riccardo
