Michael Richardson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > >>>>>> "Josef" == Josef Spillner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Josef> On Tuesday 10 July 2007 00:54:16 Michael Richardson wrote: > >> I think that we have to come up with such a standard, do a > >> version of getopt_long that grok's it, and then > >> evangelize/evangelize/evangelize. > > Josef> And a version of D'n'D and all of the other methods of how > Josef> applications might access data? Unlikely. > > If you don't want to fix desktops by specifying better standards, then > perhaps this isn't the right list for you.
Great. You should also decide whether you want fd.o to be a bunch of beautiful specs that nobody uses or useful specs that at least two major applications are going to use. Back to the original post in this thread, one application (Epiphany) uses it already and another (Firefox) has ~15% marketshare globally and growing and wants to have the same information available. I guess more if you consider Thunderbird and other Mozilla based apps, but either way, two players wanting to do something sounds _exactly_ like a reason for standardization to me. Does fd.o want to host this one file in /cvs/mime? It is the most suited place to do so because it is highly related to the existent MIME stuff there. If not, I'll move it somewhere else and let everyone get back to arguing about what other projects probably won't be doing since they've gone ahead and implemented solutions already. _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
