Request for help for developing new XDG StatusNotifier/AppIndicator spec for KDE+GNOME

[Neal Gompa]

Hello all,

As many of you know, I am one of the leads for the Fedora KDE Special
Interest Group (SIG), which develops the Fedora KDE spin[1] and the
new Fedora Kinoite[2]. What you may not know is that I'm also a member
of the Fedora Workstation Working Group (WG), which develops the
Fedora Workstation Edition[3] and Fedora Silverblue[4].

The Fedora Workstation WG has become convinced we need to have status
notifiers supported in GNOME in order to properly support
cross-platform applications that leverage status notifiers as core to
using them. However, the GNOME developers are not interested in
supporting the existing KSNI/AppIndicator specification due to several
perceived issues around sandboxed applications. In order to resolve
these issues and finally standardize the method in which all desktops
support status notifiers, I would like to invite interested folks
maintaining and developing KSNI in KDE Plasma to help us develop the
spec to unify support around status notifiers in KDE Plasma and GNOME.

The new specification development has been kicked off with an issue on
the xdg-specs repository:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/issues/84

Most of the detailed background information is linked from the
xdg-specs issue, so I encourage you to read that for more information.

If you have any questions, concerns, or comments, feel free to reply and ask.

Thanks in advance and best regards,
Neal


[1]: https://kde.fedoraproject.org/
[2]: https://kinoite.fedoraproject.org/
[3]: https://getfedora.org/workstation/
[4]: http://silverblue.fedoraproject.org/

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