Read this if your package includes a status notifier / system tray icon
Rahul Sundaram
metherid at gmail.com
Sat Mar 8 18:12:15 UTC 2014
Hi
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>wrote:
> 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:
>
That is a poor justification. You can do the right thing regardless of
what the other party (regardless of whether I buy into your
characterization).
> Have you seen the changes they requested?
Yes and I am convinced that not enough effort was taken to address the
concerns expressed. This is probably lost opportunity already but one
could strive to do better on future specs.
Rahul
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