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Portland looks to unite Linux GUIs

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2006-04-05 11:43. FreeDesktop.org

The Open Source Developer Labs is previewing work that attempts to make life easier for software companies by bridging GNOME and KDE, the two competing graphical interfaces most widely used with Linux.

The effort, called Project Portland, began showing its first software tools on Tuesday in conjunction with this week's LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in Boston. Using them, a software company can write a single software package that works using either of the prevailing graphical interfaces.

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Submitted by Anonymous George (not verified) on Fri, 2006-04-07 13:00.

Portland is more of an add-on that makes GNOME and KDE apps (and others, of course) interact better with each other

It is more targeted at applications that do neither user GNOME or KDE libraries, for example GTK+-only or Qt-only or when using a totally unrelated framework.

It could even be interesting for non-GUI applications, for example imagine if a commandline mail client like mutt could still use your Evolution- or KDE addressbook, etc.

Uh, and posting this to a GNOME site, I'd like to ask that at least one GNOME developer should participate. Doesn't have to be coding comittment, just stating that they are available for questions if necessary.

Or, regarding the commandline toolset xdg-utils, a couple of GNOME users who have experience with the GNOME commandline tools, could also help a lot.

Kevin Krammer
xdg-utils developer

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