Yet another monthly platform email

[Adam Jackson]

On Tuesday 05 April 2005 04:06, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:24:19PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 March 2005 13:23, Chris Lee wrote:
> > > I'd be willing to suggest that for the first release of the platform,
> > > we don't even include any software at all and just go with the
> > > standards/specs that everyone's using.
> > >
> > > For inclusion, specs I'd suggest:
> > > desktop-file
> > > basedir
> > > menu
> > > mime
> > > <snip>
> >
> > This sounds sane to me.  With that in mind, are there any issues people
> > have with these specs as they currently stand?  I'm thinking here only of
> > cases where the spec is ambiguous, and either some existing current
> > practice should either be codified, or else explicitly mark that case as
> > undefined.  In particular I'm not suggesting major additions.
>
> Personally, I'd suggest 'speak now or forever shut the fuck up' and set
> a hard release date of about a week from now if there are no objections?
> But then again, I'm hardly the expert on timely releases ...

Slack, and ye shall receive.  Behold ye the Freedesktop Platform Specs 1.0:

http://standards.freedesktop.org/freedesktop-platform-specs/1.0/

Which includes current versions of desktop-entry, basedir, shared-mime-info, 
menu, and wm (which was so obvious we forgot to talk about it).

Note the clever naming to allow for a Code 1.0 release in the future.

- ajax
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