Last Tango in fdo (was Re: Tango, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Desktop)

[Daniel Stone]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:49:33PM +0000, Richard Moore wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 06:42:33PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
> > Which is a bit of an empty directive without actual names of people to go 
> > after and brutalize.  So, I must ask the crowd: who out there is actually 
> > saying freedesktop.org is a formal standardization body capable of enforcing 
> > the adoption of technologies or components?
> > 
> > If you can't answer that question with the name of a particular individual, 
> > then you may now stop squawking about "misrepresentation", because you've 
> > disproved your own assertion.
> 
> Here's an example from earlier in the thread:
> 
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS3533242304.html
> 
> There are 3 names there.

Searching for 'freedesktop.org', 'fd.o', 'f.d.o', and 'fdo' yields no
results.  Searching for 'standard' only reveals that they:
  * have created a specification to standardise icon names across
    desktops (which, I will note, is not the same as calling something
    'a standard', but seems to have a lot of interest from various
    desktops anyway), and
  * 'hope to eventually provide a subsystem to help standardize
    toolkits on a common look and feel'.

...,
Daniel
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