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FOSDEM Interviews
FOSDEM writes "The first FOSDEM speakers' interviews are available on the FOSDEM website. The FOSDEM folks have produced 3 great interviews of Alexander Larsson from Nautilus (Gnome), Matthias Ettrich from KDE and Olivier Fourdan from XFCE."
Umm, I haven't read Olivier's interview yet, but as a minor Xfce developer I can say that the project does the opposite of ignore fd.o. In fact, during the 4.0 development process, Xfce was ahead of Gnome in it's implementation. There was even some talk of thinking of Xfce as a reference implementation of a desktop built to fully utilize the standard.
.desktop files? All pretty major fd.o accomplishments, all implemented by the 4 major OS Desktop Environments (KDE, Gnome, Xfce, Rox). In fact, the MIME spec is pretty facinating in that it's a case of an extremely minor player in the OS desktop, Rox, was doing one thing better than anyone else, and saw pretty quick adoption on all sides essentially just by presenting what they were already doing as a proposed standard.
fd.o is gaining momentum. I think the problem with fd.o is that it's low barrier to entry means that people want to standardize _everything_ almost to the point that no innovation can occur.
But XDND? The icon's spec? The MIME spec? Xsettings?
I've been using XFCE 4.2 on my laptop for a couple months, and it's great. While I love KDE and use it on my main computer, XFCE 4.2 comes with a keramik theme style and nice default panel setup. the only problem with it I have is the terminal, I tend to use multi-aterm instead. still, I'm sick of the bloat of Gnome, and have tried to keep the programs I use mostly in the GTK only camp. Still, with PAN, bitchx, pine, and firefox, most of my needs are met on this pentium 266. I'll never use gnome now that they use a freakin registry.