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[Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 19:49 +0000, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Also from Jo:
> > In order to clean up, perhaps Canonical and Ubuntu would consider 
> > a much louder support for XDG Base Directory Specification? Many 
> > developers are hesitant to follow it, perhaps a strong leadership 
> >is required there as well?   
> 
> This seems like a real win, too. Looks like quite a few apps do support it.
> 
> This sort of thing is useful for us to say "is a requirement for main
> inclusion in the next LTS", to try an accelerate adoption.

I guess what I think we should look at here is why they're not adopting
it.  I know when we made the switch for Inkscape one of the larger
issues was the migration of data and settings.  I think that this is an
issue that we have as a larger context in the distro as well.  The
package hooks that we've used are a bit fragile.  Perhaps a good
contribution here is a mechanism to make change painless.  (well, as
painless as change can ever be)

For the idea of it being a requirement for main I think we'd need a way
to test it -- which is something I'm not sure how we'd accomplish.

		--Ted

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