vixalientoots, 6 months ago

@ebassi I've never heard someone call XDG the cross-desktop group until now 😭

bugaevc, 6 months ago

@vixalientoots (what did you think XDG stands for?)

vixalientoots, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

@bugaevc X-men Desktop Group /s

ebassi, 6 months ago

@vixalientoots it was the X desktop group back when it was about formalising the Extended Window Manager Hints, then in 2003 it branched off into cross desktop specs for non-X11 related stuff

ebassi, 6 months ago

And some people in the Linux space are, to this day, still pondering about supporting positively ancient specs like base directories and desktop entries; this is why we can't have nice things

ebassi, 6 months ago

"D-Bus is too weird, who knows if it's going to stick around"

The D-Bus spec: 20 years and 2 months old

latenightowl, 6 months ago

@ebassi ...yet still I would consider it weird and underdocumented, twenty years later.

It does work really well, gotta admit that :ablobhyperwubbel:

ebassi, 6 months ago

@latenightowl I’d say that it’s well documented, considering that the spec has multiple implementations outside of the reference one; if you’re talking about using it, then it’s mainly a library reference issue

surveyor3, 6 months ago

@ebassi apart from gnome everyone is using Xorg, nothing can amaze me

ebassi, 6 months ago

@surveyor3 who's "everyone"?

surveyor3, 6 months ago

@ebassi KDE, XFCE, Mate. Although they are working towards moving to Wayland.

ebassi, 6 months ago

@surveyor3 apart from MATE, both KDE and Xfce are very much targeting Wayland; but I really wasn't talking about Wayland in the first place…