On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 00:03 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > That's really GNOME's fault. :-( Canonical explicitly designed > libappindicator (which is the library applications are expected to use, it > uses libindicator behind the scenes; there's also libindicate which is for > communication apps to notify new messages and such, confusing, isn't it?) to > be interoperable with KDE's status notifier spec, and thus applications > supporting libappindicator will also integrate better into the KDE Plasma > workspaces than applications still stuck on the legacy XEmbed-based system > tray protocol and/or using a GNOME-only gnome-shell extension. But GNOME is > giving the finger to cross-desktop protocols and refusing to implement them. > > It's too bad that our maintainers for the affected packages are often one > and the same as the GNOME maintainers and thus Fedora is mostly siding with > GNOME on this and refusing to carry those patches, hurting all non-GNOME > desktops, not just Unity. Kevin, I am not going to comment on the incendiary language here (I know you are pretty tone-deaf in email). But to blame us for not embracing a spec after our comments on it were completely ignored seems a little unfair, to say the least. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
