Common Interfaces for Gnome and KDE Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 11, 2006 @09:09AM from the hitting-the-adoption-gas-pedal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today OSDL and freedesktop.org announced the release of Portland 1.0, a set of common interfaces for GNOME and KDE. From the article: 'Specifically, these tools make installing and uninstalling menus, icons, and icon-resources easier for developers. They also can obtain the system's settings on how to handle different file types, and program access to email, the root account, preferred applications, and the screensaver. There's nothing new in this kind of functionality. What is new is that developers can use these regardless of which desktop environment -- KDE or GNOME -- they're targeting.'"

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Re:The danger for developers by wysiwia · 2006-10-11 17:52 · Score: 0, Flamebait

No developer will code something like this, nobody has the time and energy to test each case. The only solution would be to use wxWidgets since it handles all platform specifics inside.

O. Wyss

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