Well, since my telephone connection seems to be to flaky to keep me in the DAM-4 planning conference call, I decided to give some feedback here.
On Donnerstag, 12. April 2007 +0100, John Cherry wrote: > Cross-Desktop > ============= > The Portland tools (xdg-utils) are a good start to installation and > runtime consistency. The 1.0 version was released in October > (http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/11/1355201). The xdg-utils > are now included in most development distros, in the LSB, and in the LSB > toolkits. > > Waldo...any updates on the "desktop services" phase (D-BUS-based) of the > Portland Project? We completed the KDE3 based prototype implementation [1] in January and the GNOME2 based (OSDL contracted Imendio for this) implementation got completed earlier, so there should be some ground to test the idea itself and see where it could need some additional layer to make it convenient for ISVs to use. A bit later, there has been an IRC meeting to determine the next steps, but unfortunately it didn't lead anywhere (mostly due to differences about the scope of the projects and desktop project developers being afraid it might be a parallel effort) Since then a couple of interest groups, e.g. desktop search engine projects, media player project, started to work on specifying D-Bus interfaces for their area of interest, so it might be more viable to get other interest groups (e.g. PIM projects) to do the same and then "backport" those onto the infrastracture provided by the currently shipped desktop environments. Cheers, Kevin [1] http://people.freedesktop.org/~krake/dapi/ Includes Qt3 D-Bus bindings which need to be installed before compiling either the DAPI Daemon or the pure Qt3 (meaning it does not link any desktop libraries) sample application, since both of them need to be able to find it through the pkg-config mechanism. -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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