Common Interfaces for Gnome and KDE Released

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.'"

Comments

Love the name

[Aadain2001]

As an Oregon and Portland native, a really like the choice in name. Since OSDL is in Beaverton (right next to Portland) the name choice makes sense :)

Re:The danger for developers

[ozmanjusri]

Which means I have reason to think you understand what I was say and know that your response is pretty well beside the point.

Understanding what you say is not difficult, but what you're saying is wrong and misleading which is probably why the parent poster made their snarky comment.

Linux is not a single entity susceptible to bloat. There are big "kitchen sink" distros (Mandriva, Fedora, etc) you might call bloated, but equally there are lean distros which are most definitely not (Vector, Puppy, DSL etc). There's plenty in between those two poles too.

Even most of the so-called bloated distros can be fairly compact if you choose your isntall options carefully, so your "bloated" criticism is really a criticism of too much choice. Some of us like choice.