Draft of proposed new XDG Desktop Application Autostart Spec

[Mark Edgington]

Hello Bastien,

The diff is for a file in org-mode format, but it is available at the
following location:

    https://bitbucket.org/edgimar/xdg_autostart_spec/branches/compare/tip..v0.5#chg-xdg_autostart_spec.org

Alternatively, you can just clone the repo locally, and compare any
rev with any other, to see smaller incremental changes.

Regards,

Mark

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:22 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net> wrote:
> 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
>