I love this! Rock on! -Ghee
Stephen Lau wrote: > Stephen Lau wrote: > >> 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 >> OS 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 >> >> >> > For followup, the dependencies can be seen here: > http://publicsvn.songbirdnest.com/browser/vendor > > cheers, > steve > >
