freedesktop.org
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| freedesktop.org | |
| languages | English |
| owner | Havoc Pennington |
| Published | March 2000 |
The freedesktop.org project (formerly X Desktop Group , XDG ) is a non-profit project in the software industry with the aim of improving the interoperability and common basis of desktop environments for the X Window System . It was founded in March 2000 by Havoc Pennington , Keith Packard is one of the best-known developers of the project .
The development of the specifications and the individual projects runs in close cooperation with the well-known desktops Gnome , KDE and Xfce . The project also works closely with the developers of the X.Org server , which is the most common implementation of the X Window system. The project does not see itself as a classic standardization body. For this task it refers to other projects such as the Free Standards Group or the X.Org Foundation . Rather, the project sees itself as a place for collaboration, to exchange ideas and code, and to work out specifications.
Freedesktop.org also has a software section in which programs can be found that are loosely related to the project objectives and B. improve the interoperability of desktop software.
successes
Freedesktop.org has had several successes. KDE and GNOME have a common icon designation, a uniform definition of mimetypes and both use the same process communication D-Bus in their current versions .
Standards
Web links
- Project page (English)