[Portland] Current plan summarized

[Lubos Lunak]

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 22:43, Dan Kegel wrote:
> On 3/14/06, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz> wrote:
> > "The Interface Library may provide fallback provisions in case a target
> > system does not provide the IPC protocol and/or the required desktop
> > services. Application developers are NOT supposed to include a desktop
> > services implementation along with their application as fallback."
> >
> >  That's still an open question [*]. My current plan is to go with a
> > fallback daemon.
>
> Do you want to require ISVs to ship a fallback daemon?

 If it shows to be the best way, yes. It's not like it'd be rocket science.

>
> >  Maybe also "Portland intends to deliver two sets of interfaces." should
> > be reworded to rather say something along the lines of "that's the plan
> > for now but if you have a better idea nobody's stopping you".
>
> There's nothing wrong with shipping two sets of interfaces, especially
> given that the commandline interfaces are (I think) simply wrappers around
> commandline interfaces already provided by kde and gnome.
> Or are you saying KDE and Gnome should remove their commandline interfaces?

 No, you got me backwards. People are free to experiment with even more than 
just two approaches if they want.

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Lubos Lunak
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