Re: What is freedesktop.org

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On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 06:32:35PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>  3. The idea of the "freedesktop.org platform release" is to=20
>     define the set of stuff that GNOME and KDE are both=20
>     _using_ - stuff that's already adopted.

*cough* Such as Cairo and D-BUS? *cough*

<quote person=3D"Daniel Stone">
Basically, the platform will contain:
        * xlibs - our xlibs repository, maintained by Keith/Jim;
        * xserver - our X server, maintained by Keith/Jaymz/Eric;
          + probably won't release with first platform
        * Cairo - this thing rocks;
        * D-BUS - pretty fundamental, desktop-wise;
        * other stuff.
</quote>

http://lists.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-January/msg00559.ht=
ml

If the fd.o pr is indeed how you describe it, I'm all for it. However, the
D-BUS advocacy at Nove Hrady and fd.o (fundamental? I suppose KDE is not a
functioning desktop then?) and the apparent inclusion of Cairo (might have
been dropped by now) despite KSVG/libart shows that it apparently is not.

These kind of inconsistencies are what scares KDE developers away from fd.o.
I'm sure there are a lot of honest people in fd.o who merely want to collect
the standard base of desktops, but it seems like there are also some that
want to *shape* the standard base.

It would be reasonable to mention technologies such as arts and DCOP on fd.o
as well, I suppose.

Regards,

Rob
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