Yeah. I think some people were assuming xdg-shell was final, and I was its gatekeeper, and it's what GNOME wants and you have to fight to get other things in.
That wasn't my intention at all! My goal was to build a solid base for the rest of the DEs to eventually work more like how Bryce wants, but I was imagining it would work a lot more informally, sort of like how wm-spec-list works. If there are *any* controversial features in xdg-shell that you don't like, please let me know! The goal here is to make sure that it's a good base for everybody, so by the time you roll around to implementing it, xdg-shell is exactly what you want, and you can start with custom extensions to implement stuff that's specific to your DE. Even GTK+ has plenty of features in a custom gtk-shell that other DEs probably don't care about. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:38 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaala...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 17:10:08 -0700 > Bryce Harrington <br...@osg.samsung.com> wrote: > >> A while back Pekka asked if I'd help look at xdg-shell and how we can >> ensure it really does become a cross-desktop standard. I promised to >> engage with the EFL folks and get their feedback, which I posted >> recently. > > <snip> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2015-April/021465.html > > > Hi all, > > Bryce wrote a good and essentially simple proposal for getting things > rolling again. However, it turns out that my and his underlying > assumptions were not exactly true. We assumed that desktop projects > want to go forward all the time, on their own schedule. To support > that, Bryce wrote this proposal. > > Since then in IRC, GNOME (with Jasper's voice) has said they can > actually wait for other DEs, especially KDE, to get on board. > > So it seems the current plan is to keep xdg-shell in limbo at least > until KDE people can focus on it properly. And other DE projects, too. > In other words, not to hurry, but think things through with all major > players. > > Just letting you all know and collecting a hopefully good selection of > CCs to get the teams covered. > > > Thanks, > pq -- Jasper _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
