A fantastic project. It would be nice to see Solaris one day be 'the' multimedia platform of choice :) +1
Doug > Albert and I have a project proposal, we'd like to > get the Desktop > Community as a sponsoring community group if > possible. > > Project Short Name: Nightingale > > Project Descriptive Name: Port the Songbird Desktop > Media Player to the > OpenSolaris platform > (Short name chosen to avoid using trademarks of POTI, > Inc. and Sun > Microsystems - I'm open to suggestions if people have > better choices) > > Project Leaders: > Albert Lee (trisk) > Stephen Lau (stevel) > > Project Description: > The Songbird media player is a cross-platform > (Windows, Linux, Mac > S X) desktop media player that "plays the web". In > addition to > supporting the usual media library management/player > capabilities, it > presents APIs to add-ons (extensions) and websites > allowing for > bidirectional interaction between the media player > and the web. It > leverages existing open source software, namely it is > based on the > XULRunner codebase from the Mozilla project. It also > leverages other > technologies such as GStreamer and VLC for its media > playback. There > are both Songbird and OpenSolaris users who would > like to see it ported > to OpenSolaris. We have an existing set of patches > and work done, but > have run into hurdles with XULRunner and could use > the help and skills > of other Desktop and Mozilla contributors in the > Desktop Community. > This project intends to port Songbird, and its > dependencies to > OpenSolaris. Patches will be kept in sync with > upstream releases and > every effort will be made to contribute and integrate > sources back into > upstream source trees. > > References: > http://www.songbirdnest.com > > cheers, > steve > > -- > stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | > www.whacked.net > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org This message posted from opensolaris.org
