Unity For Fedora (As in OpenSUSE or Arch)

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 00:03 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> That's really GNOME's fault. :-( Canonical explicitly designed 
> libappindicator (which is the library applications are expected to use, it 
> uses libindicator behind the scenes; there's also libindicate which is for 
> communication apps to notify new messages and such, confusing, isn't it?) to 
> be interoperable with KDE's status notifier spec, and thus applications 
> supporting libappindicator will also integrate better into the KDE Plasma 
> workspaces than applications still stuck on the legacy XEmbed-based system 
> tray protocol and/or using a GNOME-only gnome-shell extension. But GNOME is 
> giving the finger to cross-desktop protocols and refusing to implement them.
> 
> It's too bad that our maintainers for the affected packages are often one 
> and the same as the GNOME maintainers and thus Fedora is mostly siding with 
> GNOME on this and refusing to carry those patches, hurting all non-GNOME 
> desktops, not just Unity.

Kevin, I am not going to comment on the incendiary language here (I know
you are pretty tone-deaf in email). But to blame us for not embracing a
spec after our comments on it were completely ignored seems a little
unfair, to say the least.