VDG suggestions and wishes about the system tray

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On 01.09.2014 12:57, David Edmundson wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sunday 31 August 2014, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That said, I'm not against trying it.
>>>
>>> I think the first step towards that would be finishing a proper
>>> cross-desktop specification so that it's clear what we want encourage
>>> people to do. See my mail "State of the StatusNotifierIcon spec and
>>> implementation".
>>
>> having a proper specification was blocked at the time by gnome, and all
>> attepts to resurrect the process was met with as many roadblocks.
>> with ubuntu, at least has been reached an agreement, not identical but at
>> least applications do work on one another, and given the state of things, this
>> is already amazing.
>>
>> final specification won't happen, at least not on freedesktop (and i don't
>> think at this point any new meaningful work can happen on freedesktop at all)
>
> Any objections to me trying?
>
> I already have fd.o wiki access (I'm so important!) so I can at least
> copy your website contents into the main place, we're listed under in
> drafts so I can do that without discussion on their ML and it will
> make it look way more "official" than it does now.
>
> Then we can fire off a request to move it from "Planning" to somewhere better.

+1 from me! I've learned now that fd.o isn't really functional anymore 
at this point, but unless a functioning alternative body has been 
established, we should try what we can there.