[Portland] xdg-utils 1.0.2 available

Benoit Minisini gambas at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Jun 25 09:31:07 PDT 2007


On lundi 25 juin 2007, nf2 wrote:
> Bastian, Waldo wrote:
> > Thanks to a rainy Sunday afternoon, xdg-utils 1.0.2 is now available
> > from http://portland.freedesktop.org/download/
> >
> > Changes in xdg-utils 1.0.2:
> >
> > * SVG icons are not supported but documentation still mentioned SVG
> > * xdg-email can now be used without any e-mail address
> > * Do not use mktemp without arguments, it breaks on systems with certain
> > older versions of mktemp (xdg-desktop-menu, xdg-screensaver) [BR9266]
> >
> > See also http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/XdgUtils
> >
> > Please give it some testing to help ensure that no regressions have been
> > introduced.
>
> Cool! I'm already using "xdg-open" to launch file-managers in
> libfusi/gfuse-manager  - it's kind of "keep it simple and just use FUSE"
> approach to cross-desktop network-transparency:
> (http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/devel/fusi/).
>
> May i post a feature request here?
>
> "xdg-passwd-store" - an interface into KWallet/GnomeKeyring would be
> very useful for gfuse-manager, because i don't want to have a "hard"
> dependency to a certain password storage mechanism...
>
> norbert
>

I agree, it would be a very cool feature!

I started to use xdg utilities to make a desktop-neutral component for Gambas, 
and this feature will help greatly.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini


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