Quoting Jakob Petsovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wednesday, 30. April 2008, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: >> Long story short, it would be like this: if there is a fd.o spec for >> what you are doing and you are not using it, your app/library won't >> enter the official KDE/Gnome/whatever repository *unless* you provide >> good reasons for not implementing the fd.o spec (that "unless" is >> there in case the spec is disconnected from reality or plain junk). > > Sounds cool, apart from the fact that pretty much all the stuff in need of > standardization already *is* in both desktops. > > Icon loader? Has been there long before we had the naming spec. > Long-lasting progress bars? Not a new thing. > Trash folder? Been around forever. > etc. > > Of course we might not accept new stuff into the desktops, but we > can't simply > throw out the existing code just because it doesn't support a specification. > Also, I think it's not a good idea to prevent improvements just because > another feature is still missing. > > Make sure no regressions take place in terms of spec support? Hell yeah! > Dispose code that is better than the current one and doesn't come with > regressions? Not really.
Please note I never said we should trash existing working code, I've always talked about new apps/libraries. For existing code, major versions are a good moment to adjust to fd.o specs, if possible. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
