On Monday 04 September 2006 17:10, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Again here I think the solution is code, not specs.

This hasn't been true for e.g. the Trash specification. That one is a spec, not 
code,
which allows compatibility between two different desktops implementations.
For integration with the rest of the desktop functionality (e.g. kioslaves in 
kde),
it was much better to do it that way, i.e. to share a spec but not code. Coding 
is
easy once we know what we want to code :)

Specs don't only exist for being "forced" onto people. They also exist to lay 
down clear
rules for interoperability. But I'm not pushing for "very formal" specs either, 
I'm a pragmatist too.

-- 
David Faure, [EMAIL PROTECTED], sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).
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