As of yesterday, I am officially maintaining the XDG Specifications (yes, yes, I make questionable choices ^^).
This means, if there's anything I should have a look at, or if you want to propose any addition/change, you know who to ping now! (even better if a MR/patch is attached, of course)
Thanks to everyone working on Freedesktop integration and projects, you rock!
#xdg #freedesktop #linux

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2024-March/014687.html

Hey Fedi! We're hosting a panel at SCALE 21x with some of the major players in the Linux desktop ecosystem to discuss where we go from here, any big ideas you want us to discuss?

Here's our list as of now: https://outline.fyralabs.com/s/8f1ce882-0760-4041-97e8-2dca17ddb8bd

And the abstract: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/21x/presentations/where-does-linux-desktop-go-here

Post your ideas in the replies!

#foss #linux #oss #opensource #gnome #kde #stardustxr #stardust #vanillaos #xdg #scale21x

Version 1.2.1 of the xdg-utils is out!

With two of the most obvious bugs fixed.

Thanks to the people who helped finding and fixing!

#freedesktop #xdg #xdgUtils #xdg_utils #linux

xdg-utils v1.2.1 · xdg / xdg-utils · GitLab

xdg-utils 1.2.1 contains three bugfixes found following the 1.2.0 release: xdg-icon-resource: Fix for incorrect syntax documentation: Proper quoting of _MANUALPAGE and _USAGE sections....

^GitLab

Version 1.2.0 of the xdg-utils is out!

Please test them! (But don't deploy yet)

Thank you to everyone else who contributed and thanks to Simon for the trust and maintainer work!

We need more eyes on that code!

The xdg-utils are children of their time, shellscripts that by large don’t follow a “modern” scripting style …

… which means that there is a lot of work to catch up on and any changes should be reviewed by more people than they currently are.
In case you want to help:
Just pick something that seems interesting and doable for you and open an issue/merge request.

Things that need to be done:

• Read the code and try to find mistakes (Usage of external tools, escaping, …)
• Find mistakes in open merge requests.
• Review, research and fix issues.
• Improve tests
• Improve documentation
• Rebase old merge requests
• Improve Cygwin and MacOS support
• etc.

#freedesktop #xdg #xdgUtils #xdg_utils #linux

And while I’m at it i might also hijack #fosdem for this.

xdg-utils v1.2.0 · xdg / xdg-utils · GitLab

xdg-utils 1.2.0 contains contributions from over 20 people (thankyou) some of the highlights are listed below. better support for Plasma6, Deepin, LXQt partial...

^GitLab

Fun fact: The XDG desktop portal for GNOME mobile is not adaptive, despite Nautilus being Adaptive (Nautilus is still not yet perfect on mobile but it's getting there)

#xdg #linux #linuxmobile #gnome