guidelines?

[Federico Mena Quintero]

On Mon, 2011-02-21 at 14:10 -0700, Jeff Wood wrote:
> when creating a custom desktop (for example, i want to port
> FreeGEM/OpenGEM over to linux), are there a set of guidelines posted
> or archived somwhere? i.e.: directory structure (where to place what
> files and what directories to use), launchers, systray, menus, etc. ?

Take a look at the freedesktop specs:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications

Especially:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/basedir-spec

  Federico