Draft of proposed new XDG Desktop Application Autostart Spec

[Simon McVittie]

On 18/03/14 01:04, Mark Edgington wrote:
> In an effort to rectify some of the issues which the current Desktop
> Application Autostart Specification has

Which issues?

> 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

Does an implementation of your proposed version exist, e.g. as unmerged
branches for GNOME, KDE, XFCE or whatever?

> If you take a look, I haven't changed the spec very much

What changed?

Your VCS (hg?) repository appears to contain two versions in different
markup languages, neither of which matches how that spec is currently
maintained (its wiki page claims it's Docbook XML in CVS, but I think
the reality might be Docbook XML in the git repo summarized at
<http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/>). Are they in sync? Do they
both contain all your proposed changes?

Regardless of whether it's a good idea to use a lighter-weight markup
language than Docbook XML, changing the markup language is orthogonal to
changing the content, and doing both at the same time makes it much more
difficult to review changes.

    S