Announcing LSB Desktop specifications preview release

["Banginwar, Rajesh" <rajesh banginwar intel com>]

Hello,	
	Today we are announcing the preview release of LSB desktop 3.1
specifications. This is a fairly complete version of LSB desktop
specification for wider review. We are targeting the first release
candidate for the same in the middle of next month. 

The complete specification is available at:
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/booksets/LSB-Desktop/LSB-Desktop.html


This specification is based on the following libraries and versions.

1. GTK toolkit module: The module only specification for GTK is
available at:
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/book/Toolkit_Gtk/Toolkit_Gtk.html
It is based on the following libraries and versions.
	a. Glib version 2.6.6
	b. ATK version 1.9.0
	c. Pango version 1.8.2
	d. GTK version 2.6.10

We will really appreciate feedback from GTK developers and users at
least on this part of the spec. 


2. XML module: The module only specification is available at
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/book/XML/XML.html
       a. libxml2 version 2.6.22

3. Graphics-Ext module: The module only specification is available at
http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/book/Graphics-Ext/Graphics-Ext.html
	a. libpng12 library version 1.2.8
	b. libjpeg library version 6b

Please note that if a distro has an older version of library, it may not
be able to pass LSB desktop certification. E.g. libxml2 2.6.20 does not
have certain symbols that 2.6.22 provides.

Please note some of the specification work currently in-progress (E.g.
PNG and JPEG). 

Kindly review the specification and submit your feedback. The preferred
method is LSB bugzilla at http://bugs.linuxbase.org/


What may be added before official release-candidate:
1. libQt: Currently Trolltech is working on creating the specification
for this toolkit. As they complete the required technical work, decision
will be made regarding including libQt in LSB desktop specification.
This decision relies on timely completion of libQt specs work and
licensing criteria resolution.

2. fontconfig and libfontconfig: Currently the technical work is ongoing
and based on when it is finished, LSB desktop specification
(specifically Graphics-Ext module) will be updated.

Thanks,

-Rajesh Banginwar
LSB desktop lead.