Project What?

April 5, 2006 1:04 pm General

Jonathan pointed out this article, where apparently Project Portland gave a technology preview at LinuxWorld in Boston. While I can appreciate the effort, I still don’t get why people are doing this until the current specs on freedesktop.org are anything other than ‘pretty good de facto’, ‘new and not widely used’ and ‘draft’. Some very senior engineers at Sun [4 digit ID’s, compared to my 6 digit one] recently remarked that most of the specs are full of ambiguities, that the recent icon theme cache discussions seem to highlight. I suspect someone needs to take their head out of their ass – although perhaps ‘shot in the arm’ is the correct phrase.

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