On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:03:08 +0100 Giovanni Campagna <[email protected]> wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 24/11/2011 alle 17.56 +0000, Jannis Pohlmann ha > scritto: > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:43:17 +0000 > > Peter Brett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [...] > > > > > > It would be nice to avoid a repeat of the controversy that > > > happened earlier this year w.r.t. libappindicator/StatusNotifier > > > and GNOME, and I think the best way to avoid that would be for > > > the GNOME and KDE and Unity (and XFCE etc.) folks to collaborate > > > and present a proposal *together*. > > > > I haven't managed to read the previous mails properly yet but let me > > throw in here that Xfce has repeatedly complained about Desktop > > Actions being deprecated (for no particularly convincing reasons > > AFAIR) because we found them to be very useful. > > What specification are you referring to? > In case of DES-EMA (http://www.nautilus-actions.org/?q=node/377), I > don't think that's deprecated. In fact, nautilus-actions still exists, > even if it's not in the default package set. > In any case, I don't think that specification is appropriate for what > I'm currently proposing here. Similar to the previously cited KDE > ServiceMenus, it targets file managers, not app launchers, and thus > goes a long way to match on particular subset of files, resulting in > a very complex specification, for a use case that it's supposedly > simple. Also, it allows recursive submenus, which I don't think we > want to support. > > Giovanni _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
