Re: [Lxde-list] If you don't like to be forced to use Gnome standards, please join xdg mailing list to let them hear you.

[Mario B. <mb...@ma...>]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Luther Goh Lu Feng<el...@ya...> wrote:
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> --- On Fri, 6/5/09, PCMan <pcm...@gm...> wrote:
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>> From: PCMan <pcm...@gm...>
>> Subject: [Lxde-list] If you don't like to be forced to use Gnome standards, please join  xdg mailing list to let them hear you.
>> To: "lxde-list" <Lxd...@li...>
>> Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 10:38 PM
>> The current standard/specifications
>> followed by most of the major UNIX
>> desktop enviromnents, such as Gnome, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, and
>> ROX, is
>> called freedesktop.org. See http://www.freedesktop.org/ for detail.
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>> So, every enthusiastic developers/users of lightweight
>> desktop
>> environments, please join their xdg mailinst list and join
>> their
>> discussions and let them listen to your voice. If you
>> don’t want to be
>> forced to use things developed by Gnome and KDE, please let
>> them hear
>> your voice in the mailing list. Since they are now moving
>> gnome libs
>> into GTK+, like it or not, all gtk+ applications will be
>> affected.
>> Desktop environments other than Gnome and KDE might have
>> some special
>> needs and goals and those Gnome standards might not
>> suitable for us
>> sometimes. So we need to let them hear our voice and we
>> should be part
>> of the decision making.
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>> So, please, join the xdg mailing list and get involved if
>> you can.
>>
>> Subscribe to xdg mailing list at
>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg .
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> I think some of us who have blogs or are involved in affected projects may wish to spread more awareness about this by blogging or digging or slashdotting it. I have already submitted this to tuxmachines.org.
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> Key is to create more awareness and discussion.
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> Cheers,
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> Luther
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Thanks! Please link to the blog entry of PCMan here http://blog.lxde.org/?p=361

There is also a nice image from Chris Wickert you can use here:
http://www.christoph-wickert.de/blog/2009/02/14/lxde-in-fdo-specs/

All the best,

Mario