The joined OSDL/freedesktop.org Portland initiative that was started at the OSDL Desktop Architects Meeting last december has now a Technology Preview available of the set of common programming interfaces that help Linux desktop applications integrate with the desktop of the user's choice. Portland is build up around two set of programming interfaces, the first set is based on command line tools (xdg-utils) that applications can invoke at runtime or that can be called from scripts at installation time. The second set is based around one or more libraries (DAPI) that applications can link to and which communicate with the desktop environment that the user is running to make desktop services available to the application. More information and downloadable tarballs can be found on the Portland website at http://portland.freedesktop.org/ . In particular the Portland project is interested to hear feedback from ISVs and OSVs on specific functionality that they would like to see covered by either xdg-utils or DAPI, as well as their view on some of the design considerations for DAPI as outlined on http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenQuestions Waldo Bastian Linux Client Architect - Channel Platform Solutions Group Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
