New maintainer for XDG specs

Hi all, After a bit of a period of inactivity, Matthias Klumpp has agreed to help update and maintain the XDG specs, including the menu and icon-theme specs in particular. If you have any suggestions or anything you want addressed, please discuss it on the list, or file an issue or merge reques

Re: Code of Conduct questions

Hi, I've cross-posted this to freedesktop@, as the xdg@ list is only used for actual specification development. On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 at 00:36, Jacob Lifshay wrote: > Hi, we were thinking of asking if freedesktop would host Kazan > (https://github.com/kazan-3d/kazan) for us, however some of our co

Re: Consider adding license information to freedesktop.org wiki contents?

On 6 May 2018 at 14:56, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > On Sun, May 6, 2018, at 1:56 PM, Daniel Stone wrote: >> The wiki doesn't run on MoinMoin anymore. All the wiki content is > > I'm trying to get the history - a lot of the wiki pages in the current system > were converted

Re: Consider adding license information to freedesktop.org wiki contents?

Hi, On 5 May 2018 at 18:50, Thomas Kluyver wrote: > I have found where the Moinmoin data is located > (/srv/www.freedesktop.org/moin/data on annarchy.freedesktop.org). Could > someone add me (takluyver) to the www-data group so I can investigate it > further? Or you could make all that data wo

Re: Consider adding license information to freedesktop.org wiki contents?

Hi Boyuan, On 13 April 2018 at 03:03, Boyuan Yang <073p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Several weeks have passed and seems that there's no progress here; the mail > copy sent to original discussion participants got no replies and one of the > email address also bounces. Sorry for the lack of reply, I've

Re: Freedesktop sdk aka 'tiny base runtime' project

Hi Laurence, On 27 October 2017 at 15:45, Laurence Urhegyi wrote: > So i wanted to kick off this mailing list by trying to round up a few things > which have been discussed recently, at GUADEC, in f2f conversations > afterwards, or shot over emails between a few people. It's been discussed > for

Re: xdg Digest, Vol 157, Issue 3

Hi Albert, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you. On Fri, 14 Apr 2017 at 11:18 pm, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El divendres, 14 d’abril de 2017, a les 11:27:37 CEST, Daniel Stone va > escriure: > > The wiki also says that the sole purpose of fd.o is for X Window > > Sy

Re: xdg Digest, Vol 157, Issue 3

Hi Albert, On 13 April 2017 at 19:39, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El dimecres, 12 d’abril de 2017, a les 17:49:56 CEST, Daniel Stone va > escriure: >> On 12 April 2017 at 09:05, Albert Astals Cid wrote: >> We did discuss this with a number of people, but with over 100 quite &

Re: xdg Digest, Vol 157, Issue 3

Hi Alexandre, On 11 April 2017 at 12:43, Alexandre Franke wrote: >> Daniel Stone schrieb am Di., 11. Apr. 2017 um 13:26 >> Uhr: >>> Constructive feedback on the specific form and wording of the CoC is >>> more than welcome. What would be even better is if y

Re: xdg Digest, Vol 157, Issue 3

Hi Philipp, On 11 April 2017 at 12:40, Philipp A. wrote: > Daniel Stone schrieb am Di., 11. Apr. 2017 um 13:26 > Uhr: >> Constructive feedback on the specific form and wording of the CoC is >> more than welcome. What would be even better is if you're able to >> poin

Re: xdg Digest, Vol 157, Issue 3

Hi Albert, On 12 April 2017 at 09:05, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El dimarts, 11 d’abril de 2017, a les 12:26:09 CEST, Daniel Stone va escriure: >> Constructive feedback on the specific form and wording of the CoC is >> more than welcome. What would be even better is if you're

Re: xdg Digest, Vol 157, Issue 3

Hi to whoever lives under this pseudonym, On 10 April 2017 at 13:35, Lazarus Long wrote: > ‎Would those CoC prohibit the creation of malware based on DBUS, UnionFS, > ConsoleKit, PolicyKit and a few others, using freedesktop.org to load these > malware modules? Then I'm all for it. > > You folk

Unsubscribing

All, I'm unsubscribing from this list as it's too much to read, and tbh desktop-entry-spec and similar aren't really my cup of tea. :) fd.o sysadmin is now under control thanks to Tollef Fog Heen, who reads sitewrangl...@lists.freedesktop.org as well as BZ. It looks from the complete lack of any

Re: evening the entry bar: git account management

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 09:59:30AM -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On February 17, 2010, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:24:50PM -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > but it is linked to from the next sentence in the paragraph on the main > > > page. th

Re: evening the entry bar: git account management

On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:05:08AM -0500, Jeff Mitchell wrote: > On 2/17/2010 10:36 AM, Daniel Stone wrote: > > At the risk of being overly blunt -- it's a fucking wiki. There's an > > edit button; I'm willing to bet that it's fixable in far, far less time &

Re: evening the entry bar: git account management

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:24:50PM -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > i'm starting a new thread for this because it really is a parallel issue and > i > don't want to hijack Vincent's thread to discuss it > > On February 16, 2010, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On T

Re: Migrating the specifications to git (xdg-specs repo)

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 10:21:02AM -0800, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On February 16, 2010, Vincent Untz wrote: > > I learnt a few days ago that we finally have a xdg-specs git repo. So > > let's move forward :-) > > great! > > now, how do people get push access to it? trolling around on > http://w

fd.o services outage, annarchy $HOME lost

Hi all, Cutting and pasting from my blog entry[0] because I'm lazy: > As ajax quite elegantly summed up[1], due to a series of catastrophic > power failures at PSU, where fd.o is hosted, we were down for a good > chunk of yesterday. Despite the machines having redundant power > supplies, being con

Re: freedesktop.org specification process

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 05:07:39PM -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > I generally disagree with the idea that in order to use the > org.freedesktop namespace for DBus interfaces, you must first gain > acceptance through having multiple desktops use your interface. I've snipped the rest of your email sin

Re: Summary of the fdo disussion at GCDS

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 09:53:58AM +0900, Daniel Bo wrote: > > I know, it isn't easy to decide on this matter and we clearly can't > > satisfy everyone right from the start (maybe never). But I hope you > > understand that for me as an Xfce developer having to rely *entirely* > > on other people's

Re: Summary of the fdo disussion at GCDS

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 01:13:59AM +0200, Jannis Pohlmann wrote: > Hopefully, the degree of participation in fd.o discussions will > increase (I think it already has improved a lot over the past weeks), > but I fear that with only two projects having the final word on > everything, we might eventua

Re: freedesktop.org specification process

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 03:26:39AM +0200, Will Stephenson wrote: > * The sources for freedesktop.org specifications are hosted in a git > repository at . > > Perhaps mention that this is pending whether XDG.org will provide adequate > git > hosting. I assume y

Re: Composit manager question

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 01:49:44PM +0400, Oleg Sukhodolsky wrote: > EWMH defines a _NET_WM_WINDOW_OPACITY hint to tell a composite manager to > make > the window translucent. It allows to set just one value for the whole > window. Modern > application require an alpha-mask to be set to make some a

Re: Xfree86 with touch screen for pda

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:24:26AM +0200, Dylan Cristiani wrote: > i post this message here because Marc Aurele La France suggested me to > talk to Keith Packard here You want to use the xserver tree at freedesktop.org, instead of using XFree86 4.3.0. The latter is very outdated. Cheers, Daniel

Re: .desktop files, serious security hole, virus-friendliness

On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 03:24:51PM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > Uh, PIF file attacks were very common for a long time in Windows. Are. Viruses still use them to great effect. signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ xdg mailing list xdg

Re: Dimming a laptop's backlight when idle

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:21:23AM -0800, Aaron Stone wrote: > Do the X people hang out on this mailing list? If not, where all do they > hang out? fd.o seemed to indicate that xdg was the center of action for > everything... The 'xorg' list is, curiously, the centre of the X.Org universe. ___

Re: update-desktop-database location

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:40:56PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > Christian Westgaard p??e v ?t 07. 02. 2006 v 15:45 +0100: > > > But you can use: > > > update-desktop-database 2>/dev/null || true > > > > > > Or specifically in current version of SuSE: > > > SuSEconfig --module desktop-file-utils

Re: update-desktop-database location

On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:52:39PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 04:40:56PM +0100, Stanislav Brabec wrote: > > > And what about adding pkg-config file desktop-file-utils.pc, as other > > > packages do. It can prov

Re: Last Tango in fdo (was Re: Tango, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Desktop)

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:49:33PM +, Richard Moore wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:42:33PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > > Which is a bit of an empty directive without actual names of people to go > > after and brutalize. So, I must ask the crowd: who out there is actually > > saying fre

Re: Last Tango in fdo (was Re: Tango, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Desktop)

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:20:53PM +, Richard Moore wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:03:06AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > > Why? > > Because, as Travis intimated, what is being said about Tango does not > reflect its true relationship with freedesktop.org. So go out

Re: Last Tango in fdo (was Re: Tango, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Desktop)

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:20:16PM +, Richard Moore wrote: > Ok then, perhaps f.d.o should simply put out a statement saying > that what the people creating Tango are saying isn't the f.d.o. > position, then continue to host it. Why? Must I also yell from the rooftops that anything in Open Cl

Re: Keep Tango-artists mailinglist

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 06:55:05AM +0100, Torsten Rahn wrote: > * which parts of Tango's "standards" are accepted standards by > freedesktop.org > (i.e. "just the i.c.n.") > * which parts of Tango's "standards" are accepted standards by the different > plattforms. (i.e. "just the i.c.n.") >

Re: Remove Tango-artists mailinglist from FreeDesktop.org

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:38:50PM +, seventh guardian wrote: > I ask you all to read the WHOLE thread starting with this message: > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2005-November/007452.html Yes, I have, and what I see is people wanting to host the icon-naming-spec on fd.o (which has

Re: Remove Tango-artists mailinglist from FreeDesktop.org

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:06:27PM +, seventh guardian wrote: > What I'm seeing here is people wanting to make Tango the freedesktop > official theme, and I'm against that for many reasons. There is currently no 'freedesktop official theme', and I can't imagine a future in which there is. > F

Re: Remove Tango-artists mailinglist from FreeDesktop.org

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:26:56PM +, seventh guardian wrote: > > The tango project is a worthwile effort to bring UI consistency > > to UNIX desktops. The look and feel is an important aspect of > > desktop interoperability, and also includes icon themes. So > > any efforts towards icon them

Re: [OT] Mail duplicates, (Was: Re: Qt/GTK Skinning)

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:02:39PM +0200, Kévin Ottens wrote: > Le Mardi 26 Juillet 2005 11:52, Philip Van Hoof a écrit : > > I wonder whether the Message-ID header differs. Can you check that? I > > don't have the duplicates myself. > > The Message-IDs are identical. > I provide you the diff betw

Re: Account request procedure, random components

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 09:44:05AM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > If the procedure for requesting accounts is to stick them into > bugzilla, there really needs to be a module for accounts unrelated > to existing modules. Yes, it is. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests > Is completely un