Talk:Freedesktop.org

Fixing the lowercase first letter
WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Edit Top. 70.111.218.254 18:14, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Vector versions of the freedesktop.org logo
An SVG of the freedesktop logo can be found in Keith Packard's directory on http://people.freedesktop.org/~keithp/freedesktop/. Unfortunately I was unable to find the logo's usage guidelines and it is unclear which version is the official logo... -- 81.96.206.228 07:49, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Accuracy
IMHO it is important to be accurate in the articles of Wikipedia. In this one, we read "The organisation (sic) focuses on the user". If one has actually visited the site it becomes immediately clear that this is one of the most user-unfriendly places to be. Worse yet, their products are odd and poorly documented, and have caused huge numbers of problems.

Take policykit for instance. It screws up the access to daily tasks and programs for millions of people around the world, and yet it has no interface and no documentation which the layperson can use. I don't think that any of this supports the supposition stated.

Further, the article doesn't give the necessary background info. For instance, I noticed that their home page mentioned PSU. I am not sure what that is, but perhaps it represents another organizational association which is not defined. Too little is explained about this group. - KitchM (talk) 14:10, 17 October 2009 (UTC)


 * Likewise, when I visited the article I was somewhat surprised not to find a criticism section :) While the article mentions the advantages of the project (i.e. standarization of various desktop-oriented features), there is no reference to any downsides.  There are various security and performance concerns with some now ubiquitous freedesktop.org components and their design (and I've seen criticism on the Linux-centric development of X.Org VS XFree86)...  We could try to compile a list of criticisms, but it might be hard to find "notable" sources to reference some of the claims.  66.11.179.30 (talk) 18:47, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Redirection of FDO
FDO redirects immediately to Freedesktop.org, without a disambiguation page.

FDO can also refer to a software compilation strategy called feedback-directed optimization. (qv http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler_optimization).

There is already a page for a related technique called PGO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile-guided_optimization — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.149.60.158 (talk) 18:08, 17 January 2013 (UTC)


 * I added a WP:DISAMBIGUATION hatnote. DMacks (talk) 18:12, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Concerning the recent image additions
As with other images on numerous other articles, the editor that created and added the images in question to the article has added the images to articles which have little if anything to do with the article's subject and do nothing to enhance a reader's understanding. That the Linux API is composed of, among other things, libevdev, (1) does not enhance a reader's understanding of the freedesktop.org project, and even if it did, that's conveyed by the text below the image, the image itself doesn't aid in that. Similarly, how does this image aid in the understanding of the freedesktop.org project? It doesn't. That's why I have reverted the images, because there may be articles where they do belong, but this article is not one of them. - Aoidh (talk) 21:07, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Notability tag
Freedesktop.org is important and underdocumented. If you use a standard open-source desktop like GNOME, KDE or Xfce, on a Linux-based operating system like Debian, Ubuntu or Fedora, you use Freedesktop.org a lot. Deleting this article would not help and is not recommended. Tbtkorg (talk) 10:20, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
 * See WP:GNG and WP:PRODUCT for Wikipedia's policies on notability, which has a specific definition here. Please feel free to improve the article by adding in reliable sources. FuriouslySerene (talk) 17:47, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
 * The Rubber duck debugging page describes something as important as this article does, yet it doesn't have a notability tag. If that page doesn't need a notability tag, nor does this one.


 * Freedesktop.org, like SourceForge, isn't as popular as it once was, but is still notable.
 * http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:3fmeSNev8kgJ:aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/06/saving-freedesktoporg-together.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
 * https://dot.kde.org/2013/04/17/report-freedesktop-summit
 * http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTY2OTI
 * https://dot.kde.org/2014/04/21/freedesktop-summit-2014-report 128.12.254.132 (talk) 20:40, 12 November 2016 (UTC)
 * Glad that got sorted out. 128.12.254.132 (talk) 04:51, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

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Needs a criticism section
Someone should add a criticism section regarding the poor code quality and sprawling complexity of some freedesktop.org projects such as systemd which was recently implicated in the extremely serious XZ Utils backdoor. 86.130.91.119 (talk) 06:56, 2 April 2024 (UTC)


 * No it doesn't. Thing has nothing to do with freedesktop or GNOME. Quit spamming all of Wikipedia with your agenda thanks. QuickyWithTheWiki (talk) 09:13, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Looking at your edit history, you clearly have a specific position you want to push here. You already did two levels of the chain (XZ -> Systemd -> GNOME), now you're trying to also add a mention of XZ to this page, I assume next you'll target pages like RedHat and IBM. "Criticism" sections on Wikipedia should describe common criticism, not just your criticism.
 * Those things are not connected to the exploit whatsoever, simply because they are vaguely related to systemd which is vaguely related to a C function which is utilized in one part of the XZ backdoor (which wasn't even the main part of it) doesn't mean that they're responsible for the backdoor.
 * Regardless, Freedesktop only provides infrastructure and organization to those projects, and criticism sections should be added to individual projects instead. Flexagoon (talk) 10:24, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Flexagoon my thoughts exactly. QuickyWithTheWiki (talk) 10:32, 3 April 2024 (UTC)