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Re: Welcome to Portland! [message #7804 is a reply to message #7798]

Tue, 23 January 2007 09:55

waxblood
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Registered: January 2007

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luzr wrote on Tue, 23 January 2007 08:44

Definitely.

BTW, what is real-world availability in popular linux distros? Do we these in Ubuntu?

I've found LSB roadmap:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/LSB_Roadmap

Quote:

LSB 3.2 (Q2 2007)

Desktop
Whereas LSB 3.1 stopped at the desktop toolkits (GTK and Qt), LSB 3.2 aims to "move up the stack" and incorporate more of GNOME and KDE. Four freedesktop.org specifications (Desktop entry, Icon theme, Menu, and Desktop base directory) are in the process of being added to 3.2 (all are already best practice). xdg-utils (aka Portland), which provides a unified command line interface to these standards, is also being considered, but their inclusion in 3.2 depends entirely on whether the distros include them in a service pack release of their current generation (RHEL 5, SLES 10, etc.). In any event, we should consider adding xdg-utils to the LSB SDK, since they can be bundled with the application to provide the necessary functionality. We should also revisit Qt 4. Whether this is a 3.2 candidate depends entirely on whether Red Hat ships it in RHEL 5.

I've found these two articles also
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7435528984.html
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7478724750.html

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I must confess that on my xubuntu Edgy there are Portland packages available, but they didn't get installed during the upgrade to Edgy, nor I installed them later. Since evidently these are system packages, I thought they should be in beta state, so I didn't want to mess the repo more than I've just done Rolling Eyes

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Ciao,
David

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