--- On Fri, 6/5/09, PCMan <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: PCMan <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Lxde-list] If you don't like to be forced to use Gnome standards,
> please join xdg mailing list to let them hear you.
> To: "lxde-list" <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 10:38 PM
> The current standard/specifications
> followed by most of the major UNIX
> desktop enviromnents, such as Gnome, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, and
> ROX, is
> called freedesktop.org. See http://www.freedesktop.org/ for detail.
>
> So, every enthusiastic developers/users of lightweight
> desktop
> environments, please join their xdg mailinst list and join
> their
> discussions and let them listen to your voice. If you
> don’t want to be
> forced to use things developed by Gnome and KDE, please let
> them hear
> your voice in the mailing list. Since they are now moving
> gnome libs
> into GTK+, like it or not, all gtk+ applications will be
> affected.
> Desktop environments other than Gnome and KDE might have
> some special
> needs and goals and those Gnome standards might not
> suitable for us
> sometimes. So we need to let them hear our voice and we
> should be part
> of the decision making.
>
> So, please, join the xdg mailing list and get involved if
> you can.
>
> Subscribe to xdg mailing list at
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg .
>
>
I think some of us who have blogs or are involved in affected projects may wish
to spread more awareness about this by blogging or digging or slashdotting it.
I have already submitted this to tuxmachines.org.
Key is to create more awareness and discussion.
Cheers,
Luther
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