<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Florian Müllner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fmuellner@gnome.org">fmuellner@gnome.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Mar 26, 2012 6:23 PM, "PCMan" <<a href="mailto:pcman.tw@gmail.com" target="_blank">pcman.tw@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> 3. Every desktop of course has its own way to handle settings, but it's nice to have a common way to specify icon themes and cursors. There are many small programs which are not bound to a specific DE. They absolutely need this.</p>
</div><p>To be honest, this sounds a lot like <a href="http://xkcd.com/927/" target="_blank">http://xkcd.com/927/</a> to me. Or in other words: hosting a spec on fdo does not guarantee adoption across desktops - just look where the XSettings spec is hosted :-)<br>
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<p>Regards,<br>
Florian</p>
</blockquote></div>I can make sure it gets into Qt at least, and I'm sure we can coordinate to get it into GTK with backwards compatibility. I understand where you're coming from, but this proposed standard does not compete with any other, and it certainly does not compete with xsettings. FWIU, xsettings is a way of storing the data -- this standard defines the data to be stored.<div>
<br clear="all">J. Leclanche<br></div>