On Thursday 17 April 2014 23:59:48 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > 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
David, should I put this on the dot? > > " > > 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)
