DBus service for screenshots.
Thiago Macieira
thiago at kde.org
Thu Sep 24 17:52:02 PDT 2015
On Thursday 24 September 2015 23:54:59 Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > The service we've implemented is called org.freedesktop.Screenshot
> > (we're using the freedesktop namespace because we truly want the
> > service to be DE or platform agnostic).
>
> Commendable spirit, but that's not how it works — we've been bitten by
> this in the past already. Please, use org.kde.* for your DBus
> interfaces, and *then* propose a org.freedesktop.* interface up for
> discussion. Otherwise you'll have to start versioning your own methods
> because any shared interface will likely not map to what you expose
> right now.
Emmanuele is right: please agree on the xdg at lists.freedesktop.org what the
interface will be before you release software depending on it.
Proof of concepts are fine, but until you reach a stable interface, no one can
depend on it.
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