<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 changed.
<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>