xdg-utils wants to be maintained or deprecated

[Simon Lees]

Hi,

On 8/14/19 4:22 AM, Dominik Schmidt wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> There are many issues and pending pull requests on the xdg-utils project.
> You should consider either maintaining or deprecating it.
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/
> 

It is maintained, just by not many people who are also very busy 
maintaining many other things, I'll try and go through the list of pull 
requests in the next couple of days. A few months back I went through 
and collected up all the patches that were in the bugtracker and 
submitted those.

As for the issues most of them are very old, I tried to close a bunch 
that are no longer relevant a little while back but I don't have easy 
access to every desktop so I can't close all of them (help here is 
wanted). There are another bunch many of which that are to do with 
escaping that can't easily be fixed due to the fact that fixing them 
either breaks in an alternate shell such as dash or causes other things 
to break. Into the future I'm aiming to rewrite much of xdg-utils in 
python which should limit / remove some of these issues.

Having said all that speaking with a SUSE / openSUSE distro hat on, 
xdg-utils is still a core desktop component and unless something else 
replaces it, it won't be depreciated any time soon.

I suspect that with the move from the old location to gitlab some people 
who were getting notifications about new issues / pull requests are no 
longer doing so, which may not be helping the problem. I just updated my 
settings so that hopefully I now get notifications.

Cheers

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