[Social-Desktop] Social Desktop Mailing List

[George McLachlan]

Hi Frank, 
              Albeit I have only had the chance to skim over the spec. I 
should find some time tonight to have a good look.

So think of this suggestion as a straw man, something that might kick off some 
discussion, and I may be heading in the wrong direction.

I think it would be nice to have a common data model which others could 
inherit from.  I don't really want to tie a client into a set of services, 
while each piece of work could in theory implement their own model there is 
not a lot of reuse there. 

While I have been working on this client I have played about with a common 
model. Each service would inherit from it. On top of that all of these child 
classes would return a generic type, in my case I called them IFragment. It is 
then up to the person implementing  the UI to convert them to suit the UI they 
wish to use. 

Um, discuss.....(hopefully)

George


On Wednesday 25 March 2009 13:49:32 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> Hi George,
>
> this sounds great. You can never have enough twitter clients. ;-)
>
> If you want to try something new, we have a microblogging
> functionallity on openDesktop.org too. It would be great to have a
> client for this. check the activity section here:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/open-collaboration-services
>
> What do you think?
>
> Cheers
> Frank
>
> On 24.03.2009, at 20:15, George McLachlan wrote:
> > Hi Frank,
> >
> >  I was hoping to get involved in some way.  A twitter (or identi.ca)
> > client
> > is the new "hello world", and I was going to write one, just as an
> > introduction to QT and KDE development.
> >
> > Doing this got me thinking about other services and integration into
> > the
> > desktop. So a quick look round and I found this project.
> >
> > George
> >
> > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 10:57:18 Frank Karlitschek wrote:
> >> Hi George,
> >>
> >> you are right. The list is very new. so not a lot of activity here
> >> at
> >> the moment.
> >> I plan to post a bit more information about the current state of the
> >> open collaboration services spec soon.
> >>
> >> So hopefully a discussion about the social desktop in kde is
> >> starting.
> >>
> >>
> >> George, what are your plans? Do you plan to get involved with the
> >> social desktop idea?