Thanks Simon; I've added some notes on the wiki pages of the relevant specs.

Does anyone know about their adoption in other desktops?

Thomas

On Thu, May 31, 2018, at 2:31 PM, Simon Lees wrote:
> Here is the status from Enlightenment as far as i'm aware
> 
> On 31/05/18 05:09, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> > I'm working on updating the list of specifications here:
> > https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Specifications/
> > 
> > I think several of the specs listed as "not yet widely used" are now well 
> > accepted, and could be upgraded to "pretty good adoption". In particular, 
> > these specs describe files which are on my (Fedora+Gnome) system, and I'm 
> > pretty sure I've been seeing some of the files around for several years:
> > 
> > - Icon naming: 
> > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
> Enlightenment is following the FDO specs here where possible I believe
> > - MIME application associations: 
> > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/latest/
> Yes but only for stuff in the users home directory
> > - Sound themes: http://0pointer.de/public/sound-theme-spec.html
> No: Enlightenment (efl) ships its themes as single compressed binaries,
> all sounds are included as part of these themes
> > - Help: 
> > https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Specifications/help-spec/help-system-spec.xml
> No: But mostly because enlightenment doesn't have a built in way of
> viewing help files, its help files go into the standard directory set by
> autotools
> > - Thumbnails: 
> > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/thumbnail-spec/thumbnail-spec-latest.html
> No
> > 
> > Can anyone confirm which other desktops do or don't use each of those 
> > specifications? And if you know, what version of the desktop added support 
> > for them?
> > 
> > I'm hoping to find that all major desktops have supported these specs for a 
> > long time, which makes life easy. If that's not the case, we can figure out 
> > what counts as "pretty good" adoption.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Thomas
> 
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