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[Kevin Kofler]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> If a single desktop environment wants to just implement something, they
> can go ahead and do so but that doesn't make it a real specification.  For
> other desktop environments to adopt it, it needs to be a collaborative and
> shared effort.  Part of that is addressing concerns and bringing more
> clarity so that multiple implementations are compatible.  Unstated
> assumptions lead precisely to the kind of problems you are talking about.

Yet GNOME works exactly the same way with their own specs: They implement 
them first, THEN submit them to freedesktop.org for rubber-stamping (if they 
bother submitting them at all, which they didn't always do, either). All the 
other desktops are expected to use whatever GNOME developed as is. So it is 
extremely unfair for GNOME to boycott a spec coming from other desktop 
environments on those very grounds.

It is just a matter of fact that the spec is already implemented as is in 2 
major desktop environments (Plasma and Unity) and thus cannot be changed 
willy-nilly at the whims of GNOME developers. To properly integrate with the 
other desktops, GNOME has no other choice but to implement that spec, and to 
implement it as is. Otherwise, GNOME applications will just not work under 
Plasma anymore.

        Kevin Kofler