Please vote: xdg base dir spec

[Martin Stransky]

On 11/08/2014 12:26 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Owen Taylor wrote:
>
>> -1 - I think Matthias covers the basic reasoning well at:
>>
>>
>> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/desktop/2014-October/011032.html
>>
>> Beyond that: the vast majority of applications available for Fedora will
>> not be installed by default - it's not much of a carrot to tell an upstream
>> application author that they need to conform the basedir standard to be
>> included by default, when they *won't* be installed by default.
>>
>
> Fair enough.  How about treating it as a recommendation that we would like
> applications to follow?

Open concrete bug for concrete issues (description Firefox is not xdg
compliant tells me nothing) and ideally submit your patches. That's the 
way how it can be fixed.

ma.