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Subject: Re: Adopting AppData in KDE?
From: henry miller <hank () millerfarm ! com>
Date: 2013-11-04 13:42:47
Message-ID: 135cfd70-90d5-41d9-a601-79dbf8404ecb () email ! android ! com
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Sven Brauch <svenbrauch@googlemail.com> wrote:
>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.
>
I want to formally state that I agree with this.
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<html><head></head><body><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Sven Brauch \
<svenbrauch@googlemail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); \
padding-left: 1ex;"> <pre class="k9mail">On Sunday 03 November 2013 12:49:52 henry \
miller wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; \
border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Richard Hughes \
<hughsient@gmail.com> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: \
1ex;">Please don't portray me as a modern-day highwayman as I'm really just<br \
/>trying to build an awesome application installer for GNOME. It's two<br />orders of \
magnitude harder to actually write a shared standard and ask<br />other desktops to \
adopt it (making changes as required) rather than a<br />quick hack that just works \
with one desktop on one distribution.</blockquote><br />Let me rewritte the above \
into a FAQ format:<br />Q: Why does KDE not ship appdata files<br />A: the \
maintainers of appdata have admited they have no interest in<br />standards, thus KDE \
has no formal ability to get things we need chan ged.
<br />In addition while appdata claims to be distribution/gnome, it really is a<br \
/>Fedora thing and few other distribution packages use it, thus violating<br />KDEs \
no patches for on distribution only.</blockquote><br />Let's not make a fight of \
this. I think the point that some people (including <br />me) didn't find the \
strategy for creating a standard quite optimal was made, <br />and we should drop it \
now and focus on discussing the adoption of the <br />specification.<br /><br \
/>Sven<br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>
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