Finally the first release of Shared resources is announced. It took quite more time to reach this milestone than I expected.
Grab the tarball, use it, spread it, add support for the spec in your application if you are keen of standards (I dare to hope you are 
). Currently Krita and Scribus developers have expressed interest to immediately add support. Other guys are a bit silent, but still patient 
In other news: OpenIcc gets more and more weight. Just a week ago Adobe released their ICC profiles package as RPM following OpenIcc developers agreement on paths to search for profiles. And now F-Spot and Digikam developers seem to be going to support this initiative. C’mon, X.org guys, it’s your time!