RE: [Desktop_architects] The experience of an ISV

2006-02-09 Thread Bastian, Waldo
The Portland initiative is doing exactly that. The two critical steps in the process are "code to implement them" and not getting lost in discussions about nirvana. We are working out the details on how to get from where we are today to nirvana with a focus on solving the needs of ISV sooner rather

Re: [Desktop_architects] The experience of an ISV

2006-02-09 Thread Jim Gettys
So the next step is to take this list to the xdg list on freedesktop, with a proposed solution for these problems, and possibly code to implement them, when appropriate. I do note that some of this list is the "nirvana" of unifying desktop configuration stuff, but maybe the way to start is specifi

Re: [Desktop_architects] The experience of an ISV

2006-02-09 Thread Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
Hi, Well in regards to the screensaver issue I thought that already where a solution, but it could be its GNOME specific atm. In GNOME 2.14 Totem for instance is able to tell gnome-screensaver to not activate using dbus. No idea if any other screensaver package listens to dbus for such messages, bu