Detaljnije:==== Press release ===
March 16 2013 - Nürnberg
This past week, developers from the KDE, GNOME, Unity and Razor-qt
projects met at the SUSE offices in Nürnberg to improve on collaboration
between the projects by discussing specifications.
A wide range of topics were covered.
We reached agreement on a specification for a D-Bus interface to be
implemented by applications. Pending implementation, applications are
now capable of being launched using D-Bus activation instead of by way
of executing a binary. Changes were also agreed for the desktop entry
specification for applications to advertise this capability.
We reached agreement on a modification to the trash specification to
allow for an efficient means of determining the size of all items in the
trash (for purposes of warning the user when the size is getting too
large).
We defined a new file format to cache and index the contents of all
.desktop files within a particular directory. This new format will
allow efficient full-text search over desktop files as well as efficient
lookups of various other kinds (eg: which apps support a given file
type) while increasing performance by reducing disk seeks. It will also
reduce memory consumption because it can be shared by all processes
using mmap.
The in-development kernel D-Bus implementation was presented at the
meeting and representatives from the desktop environments made
suggestions to improve the kernel API to facilitate implementation of
libraries.
We discussed the future of accountsservice and how, going forward, the
project will be sensitive to the needs of desktops other than GNOME. We
specifically discussed implementation of storing user locale in the
service as well as providing an extension mechanism for structured
storage of arbitrary key/value data, without needing to patch the
service.
We also had initial discussions (with no concrete results) on a wide
range of other topics including D-Bus session management APIs, a
replacement for X11-based startup notification, application intents and
"portals", exporting action groups on D-Bus and adding actions to
context menus in the file browser.
Perhaps most importantly we have come to agreement on a scheme for
improving the maintenance of freedesktop specifications going forward.
One representative from each of GNOME, KDE and Unity will form a joint
maintainer team. This team will act to monitor and participate in
conversations on the xdg list and decide when consensus has been
reached, which will hopefully revive the usefulness of the xdg list as the
primary point of communication between desktops.
Ryan Lortie (Gnome)
David Faure (KDE)
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:2013_Desktop_Summit
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel& ... 505790&w=2