"But as long as the freedesktop.org people basically say ‘We’re setting the standards. We’re not terribly interested in what you’re doing, but you’re welcome to come and help us.’, then I’m not much inclined to accept their invitation." - Boudewijn Rempt
Fortunately, this is not the invitation. The invitation is more like this:
the Open Source desktop world needs to limit the unnecessary chaos on our platform. this means setting standards and agreeing on common technologies. we can't wait for those who aren't interested in doing this, and we can't force people to change their mind and start devoting resources towards this worthy goal. so we have decided where this work will be done (Freedesktop.org) and the shape of that place is determined by those who show up. all are invited; those who accept that invitation will have the most say in the decision making process.
just like KDE itself. all are invited, those who show up define KDE.
we happen to have some of the top talent in the Open Source world working in and around KDE, and they are cool people as well. let's tap our strengths and make Freedesktop.org reflect our needs.
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Yes, that's what Daniel has told me at great length, too. And sorry, but I cannot see it that way. Working to resolve library churn is one, unavoidable, nuisance, bearable if it doesn't happen more than once every two or three years. Working on 'standards' needed to be compatible with something I'm just not interested in at all is quite another thing. I don't care one whit about Gnome; I do care about having to remove the dcop interfaces to Krita, about having to add new bindings for something else, about fixing .desktop files, about having to redesign Krita's native file format to be OASIS compliant (fortunately, there's no OASIS standard for layered raster images, so I've ducked out of that, even though I really should be writing the spec). I just want to get on with my work without having to contend with all that kind of thing.
I totally agree with the goals of fd.o, as it is at the moment the coherency of linux is _ridiculous_
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