The xdg-app story

[Alexander Larsson]

On tor, 2016-03-24 at 15:02 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On 24 March 2016 at 12:56, Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > 
> > * xdg-app at lists.freedesktop.org
> I think this can stay; we have devkit at freedesktop for upower and
> udisks without too much issues.
> 
> > 
> > * bugzilla @ freedesktop
> Stay too?

Its pretty much empty, so its not that painful to change anyway.

> > 
> > * git repo @ freedesktop
> We have a fd.o repo? I've only ever used the one from github.

Yes, its the official repo. Although i keep my github one up2date:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg-app/xdg-app/

> > * xdg-app commandline tools
> Certainly.
> 
> > 
> > * libxdgapp soname
> Sure. libzapp is an AWESOME name.
> 
> > 
> > * org.freedesktop.XdgApp dbus service
> Not so fussed about this; are there any other projects that are using
> this?

If we're breaking everything, why not. However, gnome is currently
using this API (for the control-center geoclue permissions storage). We
could just make it listen to both names though.

> > * ~/.local/share/xdg-app & /var/lib/xdg-app directory names
> I think so, to avoid confusion.

That breaks all existing installations though. That might not be to
many atm though, so maybe not a huge issue.

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