Draft of proposed new XDG Desktop Application Autostart Spec

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2014-03-17 at 21:04 -0400, Mark Edgington wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> In an effort to rectify some of the issues which the current Desktop
> Application Autostart Specification has, I've drafted an updated
> version of this spec that includes some new keys which I think should
> make the spec a bit cleaner and easier to implement in a way where
> different sessions / desktop-environments are able to be decoupled
> from each other.  I welcome any comments and criticism!  Also, feel
> free to fork the spec and make any modifications you would see as a
> way of improving it.
> 
> One of the big issues, of course, is how you go about changing a spec
> that is already at least in large part being supported by different
> desktop-environments.  If you take a look, I haven't changed the spec
> very much, but rather have deprecated certain keys, and introduced new
> keys to replace their functionality.  If a desktop-environment is able
> to understand the new keys, then it should use them, whereas if it
> can't, it can still rely on the old deprecated keys.
> 
> The (dynamically updated) latest version of the proposed spec is located at:
> 
>     https://bitbucket.org/edgimar/xdg_autostart_spec/src/tip/xdg_autostart_spec.md

Do you have a diff so we can see what's actually change?

Cheers