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"that works across distributions**"
** As long as that distribution uses Gnome and systemd
While a neat idea, it just reminds me of the xkcd comic on competing standards. It'll just be one more added onto the massive heap that is Linux "standards" because it requires pieces of software that not all distributions/people want to use.
xdg-app is named for consistency with the other FreeDesktop utilities, like xdg-open and xdg-screensaver. (XDG = X Desktop Group, the old name for FreeDesktop.org)
"that works across distributions**"
** As long as that distribution uses Gnome and systemd
While a neat idea, it just reminds me of the xkcd comic on competing standards. It'll just be one more added onto the massive heap that is Linux "standards" because it requires pieces of software that not all distributions/people want to use.
This is uninformed. There is no GNOME dependency in Xdg-app, but there has been a lot of work done to make sure you can easily do GNOME and GTK+ apps as Xdg-apps. There has been some work done on doing a KDE runtime for Xdg-app for instance. So while on a practical level we don't want a million different runtimes, there is no technical barrier to creating any kind of runtime with any kind of stack inside.
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