[Desktop_architects] [Announce] "Common Desktop Infrastructure" 0.1.0 is released

[Lubos Lunak]

On út 12. února 2008, Daisuke Kameda wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Daisuke Kameda is wrote:
> > We have released "Common Desktop Infrastructure" 0.1.0 under LGPL
> > version3. http://www.smg.co.jp/opensource/CommonDesktopInfrastructure/
> > http://www.smg.co.jp/opensource/CommonDesktopInfrastructure/products/comm
> >ondesktop-0.1.0.tar.gz
>
> I have made the presentation material about the vision of Common
> Desktop Infrastructure. And I have made the architecture design
> document.
>
> I want Portland project to adopt this infrastructure in the future
> version of DAPI.

 As far as DAPI goes, the current state of it is that it is dormant 
(read:practically dead). I'd love to be proven wrong, but as the person who 
wrote DAPI and received next to zero useful feedback on it I think I can say 
that.

 And, given that Portland project itself appears to be dormant too, I think 
you'll be better off not expecting it to somehow magically help you. when it 
apparently doesn't have the manpower to even take care of itself.

> I want to also discuss about the specification of GNOME, KDE/Qt,
> Mozilla, OpenOffice, and D-BUS, because I notice that there is
> the obstacles to mutual conversion of the protocols.
>
> I are waiting for any questions, any opinions, and any proposals.

 I admit I probably don't really understand the design document, but am I 
getting it right that you're basically trying to create a set of 
cross-desktop D-Bus interfaces and wrappers around that? If yes, I suggest 
you first concentrate on getting those proposed on the xdg at freedesktop.org 
list and a specification of them hosted at freedesktop.org . Such D-Bus 
interfaces would be useful even on their own and people could use them 
directly. It could also save you some work, since presumably by the time 
you're done with this, you won't have to care about KDE3 or Orbit because of 
these being phased out (I think Orbit is becoming deprecated in GNOME, but 
you better ask them). Finally, this should help you establish a base for your 
further work.

 Good luck.

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Lubos Lunak
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