Discussion:
Updating which specs have "pretty good" adoption
Thomas Kluyver
2018-05-30 19:39:48 UTC
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I'm working on updating the list of specifications here:
https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Specifications/

I think several of the specs listed as "not yet widely used" are now well accepted, and could be upgraded to "pretty good adoption". In particular, these specs describe files which are on my (Fedora+Gnome) system, and I'm pretty sure I've been seeing some of the files around for several years:

- Icon naming: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
- MIME application associations: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/latest/
- Sound themes: http://0pointer.de/public/sound-theme-spec.html
- Help: https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Specifications/help-spec/help-system-spec.xml
- Thumbnails: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/thumbnail-spec/thumbnail-spec-latest.html

Can anyone confirm which other desktops do or don't use each of those specifications? And if you know, what version of the desktop added support for them?

I'm hoping to find that all major desktops have supported these specs for a long time, which makes life easy. If that's not the case, we can figure out what counts as "pretty good" adoption.

Thanks,
Thomas
Simon Lees
2018-05-31 13:31:10 UTC
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Here is the status from Enlightenment as far as i'm aware
Post by Thomas Kluyver
https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Specifications/
- Icon naming: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
Enlightenment is following the FDO specs here where possible I believe
Post by Thomas Kluyver
- MIME application associations: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/latest/
Yes but only for stuff in the users home directory
Post by Thomas Kluyver
- Sound themes: http://0pointer.de/public/sound-theme-spec.html
No: Enlightenment (efl) ships its themes as single compressed binaries,
all sounds are included as part of these themes
Post by Thomas Kluyver
- Help: https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Specifications/help-spec/help-system-spec.xml
No: But mostly because enlightenment doesn't have a built in way of
viewing help files, its help files go into the standard directory set by
autotools
Post by Thomas Kluyver
- Thumbnails: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/thumbnail-spec/thumbnail-spec-latest.html
No
Post by Thomas Kluyver
Can anyone confirm which other desktops do or don't use each of those specifications? And if you know, what version of the desktop added support for them?
I'm hoping to find that all major desktops have supported these specs for a long time, which makes life easy. If that's not the case, we can figure out what counts as "pretty good" adoption.
Thanks,
Thomas
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Thomas Kluyver
2018-06-02 11:04:16 UTC
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Thanks Simon; I've added some notes on the wiki pages of the relevant specs.

Does anyone know about their adoption in other desktops?

Thomas
Post by Simon Lees
Here is the status from Enlightenment as far as i'm aware
Post by Thomas Kluyver
https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Specifications/
- Icon naming: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-naming-spec/icon-naming-spec-latest.html
Enlightenment is following the FDO specs here where possible I believe
Post by Thomas Kluyver
- MIME application associations: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps-spec/latest/
Yes but only for stuff in the users home directory
Post by Thomas Kluyver
- Sound themes: http://0pointer.de/public/sound-theme-spec.html
No: Enlightenment (efl) ships its themes as single compressed binaries,
all sounds are included as part of these themes
Post by Thomas Kluyver
- Help: https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Specifications/help-spec/help-system-spec.xml
No: But mostly because enlightenment doesn't have a built in way of
viewing help files, its help files go into the standard directory set by
autotools
Post by Thomas Kluyver
- Thumbnails: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/thumbnail-spec/thumbnail-spec-latest.html
No
Post by Thomas Kluyver
Can anyone confirm which other desktops do or don't use each of those specifications? And if you know, what version of the desktop added support for them?
I'm hoping to find that all major desktops have supported these specs for a long time, which makes life easy. If that's not the case, we can figure out what counts as "pretty good" adoption.
Thanks,
Thomas
--
Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net
Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek
SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30
GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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