The OSDL/freedesktop.org Portland project explained

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Explains the OSDL/freedesktop.org Portland project, which defines high-level desktop integration APIs to let Linux applications work across diverse desktop environments. Describes two interface sets: command-line tools for tasks like installing menu items, adding desktop icons, opening files/URLs, launching mail composers and requesting root permission; and a linkable library offering those functions plus keyring management and address book lookups. Also provides a status update and discusses upcoming challenges for the project.

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