Re: freedesktop.org platform - preparing for release 1

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Daniel Stone <daniel fooishbar org> writes:

> > Along with intltool, perhaps pkg-config and desktop-file-utils should be
> > released as part of a freedesktop developer-utils release.  As for
> > scrollkeeper, there was interest in dropping it in favor of a better
> > solution.
> 
> I think I've managed to co-opt pkg-config into the release. What's
> desktop-file-utils, and where do I get it?

Desktop-file-utils is a tool for validating and installing a desktop
file.  It's more useful for packagers than for normal developers.

http://freedesktop.org/Software/desktop-file-utils

> Do you have a link to the discussion(s) on scrollkeeper's
> replacement(s)?

There's not really a replacement to scrollkeeper planned.  There was
some discussion on xdg-list about possible replacements, but it didn't
go anywhere.  We basically have a set of problems with it, and would
prefer not to see it emphasized until a workable replacement can be
made.

Thanks,
-Jonathan