El Dijous, 17 d'abril de 2014, a les 20:17:38, David Faure va escriure: > I represented KDE again this year at the freedesktop summit in Nuremberg. > Please find our report below.
Awesome work as always David, let us know how we can help :) Cheers, Albert > > > " > From March 31 to April 4, Free Software desktop hackers from many of the > largest desktops (including GNOME, KDE, Unity and LXDE-Qt) met to > collaborate on specifications and tools to improve application > interoperability between the desktops. Clarified standards are expected > not only to improve the experience when running applications designed > for one desktop inside of another, but also to provide a clearer picture > of what is required from 3rd party application developers approaching > the Free Software desktop for the first time. > > This was the second time the annual event occurred. Both times, it was > sponsored and hosted by SUSE at their offices in Nuremberg. > > The meeting accomplished a standardisation of the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP > environment variable for allowing applications to know in which desktop > environment they are running. The meeting also produced the first > formal specification of how applications should be associated with given > mime types and URI schemes, including how to select the default > application in a way appropriate to the current desktop environment, > respecting the choices of the OS vendor and the local system > administrator as well as the user. > > Small progress was made on a simple common inhibit specification that > applications can use to prevent events such as locking of the screen or > powering down of the network interfaces, but with improvements on > fine-grained power control capabilities on forthcoming hardware devices, > additional research (and perhaps time) is required before a complete > specification can be produced. > > The meeting also produced an agreement on the future of startup > notification in the Wayland world. A protocol based on broadcast of > D-Bus signals will be used instead of the current approach with X client > messages. This approach is expected to integrate nicely with future > frameworks for sandboxed applications. Improvements were also made to > the protocol to allow for tab-based applications that make dynamic > choices about creating a new tab or a new window depending on the > workspace in which a document was opened. > > The introduction of the long-awaited Implements= key in desktop files > was also finalised. This is used to express support of a given > interface by an application. Among other things, this is expected to be > used to advertise supporters of the provider side in a future "portals" > system for exchanging data between sandboxed applications. > > Also discussed was the possibility of defining a "resource base" for > desktop files so that application resources such as icons can be > accessed without being merged into the 'hicolor' icon theme. The lack of > certainty over how future sandboxing approaches would deal with this > situation prevented any progress on this point. > > Time was taken to perform significant cleanups of the xdg > specifications (and their build system) and to deal with bug backlog on > some freedesktop components such as the the shared-mime-info database. > > The meeting was also used to discuss details of the API of the > forthcoming memfd interface in the kernel that will be used to support > efficient sending of very large kdbus messages. kdbus and GVariant were > also discussed, as were the desktop file index and systemd support for > time-based activation of applications that want to exit when idle (such > as alarm clocks). The possibility of standardising the new notification > interface based on D-Bus activatable applications was also briefly > discussed. > > After the meeting, work continues on publishing updated specifications > and writing implementations. The meeting is expected to happen again, > in 2015. > " > > (Written by Ryan Lortie, from glib/gnome, reviewed by all participants)
