freedesktop specs

[Christian Schaller]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rahul Sundaram" <metherid at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussions about development for the Fedora desktop" <desktop at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 4:19:27 PM
> Subject: Re: freedesktop specs
> 
> Hi
> 
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> It is worth keeping the overall goal in mind: We want to offer
> high-quality applications to the Workstation users - as many as
> possible.
> 
> It is one thing to write guidelines about best practices for logos,
> icons and such - those are things that can be fixed up in packaging.
> 
> Changing the location of config files on the filesystem is much more
> involved, and really needs upstream acceptance of the change
> 
> IMO, all of the changes we make have to be send upstream anyway regardless of
> how minor it is. There is no particular reason a better logo shouldn't be
> upstream to use your example. 

You say that, but Jakub Steiner tried to submit a much improved icon to the Darktable
project not long ago and it got rejected with the suggestion that if we didn't
want the current icon we should just patch it ourselves in Fedora :)


There should be a high level of consistency
> for the default apps and that goes beyond just minor differences in
> packaging. Would you want to introduce a new default app that uses GTK2 at
> this point? If we say all default apps in Fedora workstation MUST use a
> standard toolkit like GTK3 or Qt4, that doesn't mean we will be forking the
> apps. Just that we wouldn't accept it into the default set until it is
> ported over. XDG base dir spec could be enforced in the same way.

I would be fine with that, but mostly because the likelyhood of anyone even 
considering adding such an app to the default installation is extremely low.
The goal here is to not include as little as possible with the default set and
instead rely on Software to be the portal to applications.


Christian