On Thursday 24 November 2011 22:27:23 Jannis Pohlmann wrote: > 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? > > http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.5 > .html#mime-types > > This section is no longer present in recent versions of the desktop > entry spec.
Yep, and I agree with you, it makes no sense. Both KDE and XFCE use it, at least. My (controversial) explanation is that gnome doesn't use that, or stopped using that, so they removed it from the spec. -- David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. KDE Frameworks 5 _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
