Jan. 4, 2015
10:50 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 4, 2015, at 16:02, Ethan Furman wrote:
If by "stands by itself" you mean "desktops can't interact with it", how would that be useful?
They interact with it _through the filesystem_, because it does the same things with the filesystem as all the desktop environments do and as the spec says. Just like Gnome doesn't have to interact directly with KDE - programs from each environment don't have to call the other's library APIs - for both Nautilus and Dolphin to display the same trash contents and to do the same thing when you trash a file.