What I am hoping to achieve with this, is widget and panel interoperability.
On 11/05/2018 02:54 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 at 13:05:24 +0200, IFo Hancroft wrote: >> It is not agreed on whether a panel should provide the taskbar/task >> manager, menu, tray, widgets. > This is a UX design question. If one desktop environment's designers > think there should be a panel with a list of running applications (a > taskbar), and another desktop environment's designers think there should > not, then they are not going to agree on a specification that tries to > require or forbid a taskbar: at least one set of designers would object > to that specification. > > Desktop environments have different UI/UX designs, and that's a good > thing, because different users have different preferences for the UI/UX > they want to use. Some people want a panel with a taskbar, and they should > choose a desktop environment that (at least optionally) provides one. > Other people don't want a panel with a taskbar, and they should choose > a desktop environment that (at least optionally) doesn't provide one. > > Similar considerations apply to various other UI/UX features. > > What is it that you aim for desktop environments to agree on? > > One of the major topics for freedesktop.org is arranging that an > application that wants to do something can use the same code for multiple > desktop environments (for instance, an application can get itself listed > among other applications by installing a single .desktop file that works > approximately the same in GNOME, KDE, etc., instead of having to install > a .gnomeapp file and a .kdeapp file and so on). What application-facing > functionality do you aim to standardize? > > (In particular, when an application installs a .desktop file, there is > no guarantee that it will be presented in the same way in all desktop > environments: KDE shows it among other apps in a hierarchical menu, > whereas GNOME shows it among other apps in a flat, searchable list in > the overview. Both are equally acceptable from the point of view of > the Desktop Entry specification, and whether you prefer KDE's design or > GNOME's design should be a factor in whether you choose to use KDE or > GNOME or something else.) > > smcv > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
