About dialog openDesktop.org integration - Profile guidelines

[Seb Ruiz]

2009/8/23 Téo Mrnjavac <teo at getamarok.com>:
> Dear team,
> as you may have noticed from the commit messages and IRC activity, I
> have recently modified KAboutDialog to include openDesktop.org support
> through the OpenCollaboration Services API, and called it
> ExtendedAboutDialog for lack of a better name.
> What does this mean?
> This means that those contributors who also have Author status (and
> soon "Thanks to" contributors too) have additional extended entries
> with data downloaded from openDesktop.org that can be viewed if the
> user has internet access and an openDesktop.org account. The About
> dialog becomes a small social desktop client, and enables more direct
> interaction between the users and the team.
> This shows that there's real people working on the program, and I
> think it could do wonders for promotion.
>
> The implementation indirectly uses the OCS REST API, through the
> Attica library. Attica is an almost-library, originally developed for
> the OCS dataengine and currently in kdeplasma-addons. Though the
> dataengine is already in 4.3, the Attica library is pending review for
> inclusion into KDE 4.4. Until then, I have crudely copied over
> libAttica into our tree, to src/aboutdialog/libattica-ocsclient, like
> we did with Plasma in 2.0 times. With any luck and a lot of work, by
> 4.4 we might even have the ExtendedAboutDialog itself in kdelibs :)
> If you haven't tried it yet, screenshots are available here [1].
>
> Anyway, this email is about the data the dialog shows. As I said, it's
> downloaded from openDesktop.org, which means that if you don't have an
> openDesktop.org account, or the profile isn't very complete, then the
> data shown by the ExtendedAboutDialog will still be valid but entirely
> (or almost entirely) extracted from KAboutData, much like the old
> About dialog. While the dialog looks way cooler with actual data
> inside it, I realize that some of us dislike social networking for
> various reasons and prefer to keep their data more private, so all the
> fields shown by the ExtendedAboutDialog entries are optional: you may
> link an openDesktop.org account with your full profile, an
> openDesktop.org account with a partially filled profile, or even not
> link an account at all.
> I have started a wiki page here [2] which states some guidelines on
> how to build your openDesktop.org profile so that it looks good in the
> dialog. Since the ExtendedAboutDialog is still very much a moving
> target, these guidelines are somewhat subject to change so keep an eye
> on the page for changes :)
>
> Also, I wanted to let you know that this little project of mine is
> competing in the Social Desktop Contest on openDesktop.org and the
> deadline is August 25th (in three days), so if you have the chance it
> would be nice if you could check out the candidates [4] and give your
> votes.

This is really cool - I never thought the about dialog could be
anything more than an about dialog.

Voted!

>
> Cheers
> Téo
>
>
> [1] http://www.opendesktop.org/content/show.php/ExtendedAboutDialog+for+KDE+apps?content=110614
> [2] http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Development/openDesktop.org_Profile_Guidelines
> [3] http://www.socialdesktop.org/contest/
> [4] http://www.opendesktop.org/index.php?xcontentmode=99
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