On Sunday 03 November 2013 12:49:52 henry miller wrote:
Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com> wrote:
Please don't portray me as a modern-day highwayman as I'm really just
trying to build an awesome application installer for GNOME. It's two
orders of magnitude harder to actually write a shared standard and ask
other desktops to adopt it (making changes as required) rather than a
quick hack that just works with one desktop on one distribution.
Let me rewritte the above into a FAQ format:
Q: Why does KDE not ship appdata files
A: the maintainers of appdata have admited they have no interest in
standards, thus KDE has no formal ability to get things we need chan
ged.
In addition while appdata claims to be distribution/gnome, it really is a
Fedora thing and few other distribution packages use it, thus violating
KDEs no patches for on distribution only.
Let's not make a fight of this. I think the point that some people (including
me) didn't find the strategy for creating a standard quite optimal was made,
and we should drop it now and focus on discussing the adoption of the
specification.
Sven