[Portland] Portland Technology Preview available for download

[Bastian, Waldo]

Great, thanks Kevin!

Waldo Bastian
Linux Client Architect - Channel Platform Solutions Group
Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux
OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin Krammer [mailto:kevin.krammer at gmx.at]
>Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 3:44 AM
>To: portland at lists.freedesktop.org
>Cc: Bastian, Waldo; hobbithk at gmail.com
>Subject: Re: [Portland] Portland Technology Preview available for
download
>
>Fixed in xdg-mime, xdg-open and xdg-su
>
>Cheers,
>Kevin
>
>On Thursday 06 April 2006 07:17, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
>> Thanks for your feedback, I will look into it.
>>
>> Waldo Bastian
>> Linux Client Architect - Channel Platform Solutions Group
>> Intel Corporation - http://www.intel.com/go/linux
>> OSDL DTL Tech Board Chairman
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >From: Hagai Kariti [mailto:hobbithk at gmail.com]
>> >Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:56 PM
>> >To: Bastian, Waldo
>> >Subject: Re: [Portland] Portland Technology Preview available for
>>
>> download
>>
>> >Hi, I've been following this mailing list for some time, and I'm
glad
>>
>> to
>>
>> >see we (or you) have something that kinda works :)
>> >
>> >I think I found an error in or of the scripts (I just looked at one,
so
>> >I don't know if it's in more that one). In the xdg-mime script, I
can't
>> >see a place where DE is defined as 'generic'...
>> >
>> >On 4/5/2006 5:05, Bastian, Waldo wrote:
>> >> 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
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>> >
>> >--
>> >Hobbit HK