On Sunday, 21 de August de 2011 21:07:05 Alex Merry wrote: > On 21/08/11 15:23, John Layt wrote: > > So lets turn that on its head. Lets write a statement saying why we > > need a spec and what it needs to achieve. Mention we have an existing > > solution that would be a good starting point, but don't actually > > detail it. Then send that to xdg and Gnome and Unity and anyone else > > asking who are the right pople to talk to. Hopefully those people then > > decide it's a good thing and agree to work together to develop a > > standard. If they're not interested then we get to draft it ourselves > > knowing there can be no complaints. > > On the other hand, what's the point of creating a "cross-desktop > standard" without anyone involved from other desktops? We're just > creating a KDE standard and slapping a "cross-desktop" label on it, > which is kind of missing the point. > > Although KGlobalAccel could really do with a nicer D-Bus API.
It wouldn't be the first time someone pushes a spec without a second user of
it.
But the point is that we should open up the discussion and do the work of
elaborating a spec. We have identified a need and we have a solution for it.
I'm sure others see the similar problem, even if they don't have the time for
it now (à la status notifier spec).
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