Linux moves towards unified APIs
The Portland Project has released a beta version of its programming interfaces for the Gnome and KDE Linux environments. This is designed to boost development of desktop Linux applications by creating common application programming interfaces (APIs) for developers to use.
Waldo Bastian, chairman of the Desktop Linux working group of the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), said the release would help software vendors to interface with the Linux desktop. “Linux distributions are all slightly different,” Bastian said. “Our intention is that if software vendors follow this, [their applications] will work with all distributions of Linux, regardless of version or desktop environment.”
The Portland Project is a collaborative effort between the OSDL and Freedesktop.org, an open- source project also focused on interoperability between X Window desktops such as KDE and Gnome.
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