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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Beta4 of xdg-utils is available from <a
href="http://portland.freedesktop.org/">http://portland.freedesktop.org/</a> The
biggest change since beta3 is the new command line syntax for xdg-desktop-menu,
in particular it’s now no longer necassery to provide a *.menu snippet in
order to create your own submenu. See <a
href="http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0beta4/xdg-desktop-menu.html">http://portland.freedesktop.org/xdg-utils-1.0beta4/xdg-desktop-menu.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>A quick run of the testsuite on a few distributions shows
that things are in quite a good shape. See<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&version=beta4&product=Portland&component=test-report">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&version=beta4&product=Portland&component=test-report</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The two remaining issues that hold up a 1.0 release are:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>support for SVG icons is not
very widespread since it has only been added to relative recent desktop versions.
Should we drop support for SVG icons from xdg-icon-resource?<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>support for gnome 2.8, which still
seems to use a pre-fdo-menu-spec vfolder menu implementation, is still
missing. With the new xdg-desktop-menu syntax it shouldn’t be too
hard to add that and I will do in the next few days.<o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Apart from that, the registration of mimetypes still seems a
bit unreliable. I don’t think there is a big issue there but there may be
a race-condition in the tests due to caching effects. I also noticed that Gnome
doesn’t automatically make an application the default handler for a
certain mimetype when that application is the only application to support that
mimetype. Should xdg-utils automatically register applications as the default
handler if there wasn’t a default handler set already?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Your continued feedback as well as submissions of beta4 testreports
is highly appreciated. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>Waldo Bastian</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>Linux Client Architect - Client Linux
Foundation Technology</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>Channel Platform Solutions Group</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>Intel Corporation - <a
href="http://www.intel.com/opensourcego/linux">http://www.intel.com/opensource</a></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;color:blue'>OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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